A magneto-optical trap of silver and potassium atoms

Michael Vayninger, Angela Xiang, Nachiket D. Bhanushali +6

We demonstrate a dual magneto-optical trap of ${}^{109}$Ag and ${}^{39}$K. For silver, a decreasing-field Zeeman slower loads a MOT of $1.5\times 10^8$ atoms at a temperature of 0.74(…