Magneto-optical trapping of Stark-slowed metastable He atoms

Jung, R.; Gerlach, Sonja; Schumann, R.; Oppen, Gebhard von; Eichmann, U.

doi:10.1140/epjd/e2003-00089-5

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“…The innovations in the operation of MOTs for metastable noble gas atoms include the use of four beams rather than the usual six (Shimizu et al, 1991), the application of laser cooling light resonant with transitions to a higher lying state (Koelemeij et al, 2003Tychkov et al, 2004), in some cases applying Stark slowing instead of Zeeman slowing (Jung et al, 2003;Schumann et al, 1999), the simultaneous application of two-color laser fields for improved MOT performance (Kumakura and Morita, 1992;Rooijakkers et al, 1995Rooijakkers et al, , 1997a, as well as the simultaneous trapping of multiple-bosonic mixtures (Feldker et al, 2011;Schütz et al, 2011), Bose-Fermi mixtures (Feldker et al, 2011;Schütz et al, 2011;Stas et al, 2004), and metastable-alkali mixtures (Busch et al, 2006;Byron et al, 2010a,b;Sukenik and Busch, 2002).…”

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Cold and trapped metastable noble gases

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We review experimental work on cold, trapped metastable noble gases. We emphasize the aspects which distinguish work with these atoms from the large body of work on cold, trapped atoms in general. These aspects include detection techniques and collision processes unique to metastable atoms. We describe several experiments exploiting these unique features in fields including atom optics and statistical physics. We also discuss precision measurements on these atoms including fine structure splittings, isotope shifts, and atomic lifetimes.

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