Lewandowski, H.
, Harber, D.
, Whitaker, D.
and Cornell, E.
(2002),
Observation of Anomalous Spin-State Segregation in a Trapped Ultracold Vapor, Physical Review Letters
(Accessed April 19, 2024)
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Observation of Anomalous Spin-State Segregation in a Trapped Ultracold Vapor
Published
Author(s)
H J. Lewandowski, D M. Harber, D Whitaker,
Abstract
We observe counter-intuitive spin segregation in an inhomogeneous sample of ultra-cold, non-condensed, magnetically trapped Rubidium atomswith effectively two internal spin states. We use spatially selective microwave spectroscopy to verify a simple model'that accounts for thdifferential forces that apply to the two spin states. In any simple understanding of the cloud dynamics, the differential forces are far too smalto account for the dramatic transient spin polarizations observed. The underlying mechanism remains to be elucidated.Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
88
Issue
No. 7
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
phase separation, ramsey spectroscopy
Citation
Created January 31, 2002, Updated October 12, 2021