中国物理B ›› 2008, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 921-926.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/17/3/030

• ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Parametric resonance and cooling on an atom chip

颜波, 李晓林, 柯敏, 王育竹   

  1. Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Center for Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 收稿日期:2007-05-24 修回日期:2007-06-26 出版日期:2008-03-04 发布日期:2008-03-04
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the State Key Basic Research Program (Grant No 2001CB309307), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10334050 and 10474105) and Key Oriental Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No KGCX2-SW-100).

Parametric resonance and cooling on an atom chip

Yan Bo(颜波), Li Xiao-Lin(李晓林), Ke Min(柯敏), and Wang Yu-Zhu(王育竹)†   

  1. Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Center for Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • Received:2007-05-24 Revised:2007-06-26 Online:2008-03-04 Published:2008-03-04
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the State Key Basic Research Program (Grant No 2001CB309307), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10334050 and 10474105) and Key Oriental Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No KGCX2-SW-100).

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摘要： This paper observes the parametric excitation on atom chip by measuring the trap loss when applying a parametric modulation. By modulating the current in chip wires, it modulates not only the trap frequency but also the trap position. It shows that the strongest resonance occurs when the modulation frequency equals to the trap frequency. The resonance amplitude increases exponentially with modulation depth. Because the Z-trap is an anharmonic trap, there exists energy selective excitation which would cause parametric cooling. We confirm this effect by observing the temperature of atom cloud dropping.

Abstract: This paper observes the parametric excitation on atom chip by measuring the trap loss when applying a parametric modulation. By modulating the current in chip wires, it modulates not only the trap frequency but also the trap position. It shows that the strongest resonance occurs when the modulation frequency equals to the trap frequency. The resonance amplitude increases exponentially with modulation depth. Because the Z-trap is an anharmonic trap, there exists energy selective excitation which would cause parametric cooling. We confirm this effect by observing the temperature of atom cloud dropping.

Key words: atom chip, parametric excitation, parametric cooling

中图分类号:  (Atom cooling methods)

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