Phys. Rev. A 56, 2451–2454 (1997)Spin-flip transitions in a magnetic trapReceived 21 January 1997; revised 11 April 1997; published in the issue dated September 1997 There is currently a great deal of experimental interest in the trapping of alkali-metal atoms in magnetic traps. In this Brief Report we present a method for calculating nonadiabatic spin-flip transitions in such traps. We show that for realistic traps currently being used the loss rate due to this mechanism is exponentially small. © 1997 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.2451
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.56.2451
PACS:
32.80.Pj, 41.20.Gz, 03.65.-w
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