An ultracold, optically trapped mixture of {87}Rb and metastable {4}He atoms

Adonis Silva Flores, Hari Prasad Mishra, Wim Vassen +1

We report on the realization of an ultracold (<25~muK) mixture of rubidium ({87}Rb) and metastable triplet helium ({4}He) in an optical dipole trap. Our scheme involves laser cooli…