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Optimized production of a cesium Bose-Einstein condensate

Tobias Kraemer, Jens Herbig, Michael Mark, Tino Weber, Cheng Chin, Hanns-Christoph Naegerl, Rudolf Grimm

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0408268

Abstract

We report on the optimized production of a Bose-Einstein condensate of cesium atoms using an optical trapping approach. Based on an improved trap loading and evaporation scheme we obtain more than 105 atoms in the condensed phase. To test the tunability of the interaction in the condensate we study the expansion of the condensate as a function of scattering length. We further excite strong oscillations of the trapped condensate by rapidly varying the interaction strength.

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