Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of chromium atoms

Axel Griesmaier; Jürgen Stuhler; Tilman Pfau

doi:10.1117/12.682576

22 May 2006 Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of chromium atoms

Axel Griesmaier, Jürgen Stuhler, Tilman Pfau

Proceedings Volume 6256, ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information; 62560S (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682576
Event: ICONO 2005, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of chromium atoms [1], whose large magnetic dipole moment is unique among all species that have been Bose-condensed so far. The arising magnetic forces are of anisotropic and long-range character and therefore introduce a novel type of interaction in the physics of ultracold quantum gases. In addition, it is expected that the character of the interaction present in a chromium BEC can be varied from mainly contact to purely dipolar utilizing one of the recently observed Feshbach resonances in ⁵²Cr-collisions.

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Axel Griesmaier, Jürgen Stuhler, and Tilman Pfau "Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of chromium atoms", Proc. SPIE 6256, ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information, 62560S (22 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682576

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