Phys. Rev. A 71, 025602 (2005) [3 pages]

Magnetic trapping of an atomic ⁵⁵Mn-⁵²Cr mixture

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S. V. Nguyen^1,3, J. S. Helton^2,3, K. Maussang^1,3, W. Ketterle^2,3, and John M. Doyle^1,3
¹Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
²Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
³Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Received 11 November 2004; published 18 February 2005

Atomic manganese ⁵⁵Mn and chromium ⁵²Cr are simultaneously loaded and confined in a magnetic trap. Using a cryogenic ³He buffer gas, 10¹¹ manganese and 10¹² chromium atoms are trapped at an initial temperature of 600 mK. The buffer gas is then pumped away, thermally isolating the sample. The Mn-Cr interspecies inelastic rate constant is measured to be Γ_Mn,Cr=1.5(±0.2)×10⁻¹³ cm³∕s.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.025602

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10.1103/PhysRevA.71.025602

PACS:

03.75.Mn, 34.50.-s, 39.10.+j, 34.20.Cf

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