Coherent Slowing of a Supersonic Beam with an Atomic Paddle
E. Narevicius, A. Libson, M. F. Riedel, C. G. Parthey, I. Chavez, U. Even, M. G. Raizen
Abstract
We report the slowing of a supersonic beam by elastic reflection from a receding atomic mirror. We use a pulsed supersonic nozzle to generate a 511 +/- 9 m/s beam of helium that we slow by reflection from a Si(111)-H(1x1) crystal placed on the tip of a spinning rotor. We were able to reduce the velocity of helium by 246 m/s and show that the temperature of the slowed beam is lower than 250 mK in the co-moving frame.
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