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Evaporative cooling of atomic chromium

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2002

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Weinstein, Jonathan D., Robert deCarvalho, Cindy I. Hancox, and John M. Doyle. 2002. “Evaporative Cooling of Atomic Chromium.” Physical Review A 65 (2) (January 4). doi:10.1103/physreva.65.021604.

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We report the magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling of bosonic and fermionic isotopes of atomic chromium. Using a cryogenic helium buffer gas, 10^12 chromium atoms are trapped at an initial temperature of ~1 K. The chromium atoms are then cooled adiabatically and evaporatively to temperatures as low as ~10 mK. Elastic and inelastic ^52Cr collisional cross sections are measured over this temperature range. Prospects for simultaneously creating a ^52Cr Bose-Einstein condensate and ^53Cr Fermi degenerate gas will be discussed.

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