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Transport of Atom Packets in a Train of Ioffe-Pritchard Traps

Thierry Lahaye, Gael Reinaudi, Zhaoying Wang, Antoine Couvert, David Guéry-Odelin

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0605302

Abstract

We demonstrate transport and evaporative cooling of several atomic clouds in a chain of magnetic Ioffe-Pritchard traps moving at a low speed (<1~m/s). The trapping scheme relies on the use of a magnetic guide for transverse confinement and of magnets fixed on a conveyor belt for longitudinal trapping. This experiment introduces a new approach for parallelizing the production of Bose-Einstein condensates as well as for the realization of a continuous atom laser.

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