Novel cooling schemes for atomic strontium
Abstract
Due to its extremely narrow electronic transition and the decoupling between its nuclear spin from the electronic angular momentum, Sr has been featured in a number of Quantum Simulation proposals [1,2]. With the demonstrated capability in precision measurement and control from ongoing optical clock experiments, a key challenge to these quantum information experiments is the creation of high phase space density samples of both bosonic and fermionic Sr atoms at a high duty cycle. Here we report our recent progress in exploring novel cooling schemes with ^88Sr. Recent results in employing Optical Feshbach Resonances for turning on interactions between atoms are presented and future experiments with narrow line laser cooling are discussed. [4pt] [1] A.J. Daley et al. 2008, 101, 170504[0pt] [2] A.V. Gorshkov et al. 2009, 102, 110503
- Publication:
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APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010APS..DMP.E1118B