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Anisotropic velocity distributions in 3D dissipative optical lattices

Johan Jersblad, Harald Ellmann, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Anders Kastberg

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0301034

Abstract

We present a direct measurement of velocity distributions in two dimensions by using an absorption imaging technique in a 3D near resonant optical lattice. The results show a clear difference in the velocity distributions for the different directions. The experimental results are compared with a numerical 3D semi-classical Monte-Carlo simulation. The numerical simulations are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental results.

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