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Radio-frequency induced ground state degeneracy in a Chromium Bose-Einstein condensate
Q. Beaufils, T. Zanon, R. Chicireanu +5
We study the effect of strong radio-frequency (rf) fields on a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in a regime where the rf frequency is much larger than the Larmor frequency.…
All-Optical Production of Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensates
Q. Beaufils, R. Chicireanu, T. Zanon +5
We report on the production of ^52Cr Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC) with an all-optical method. We first load 5.10^6 metastable chromium atoms in a 1D far-off-resonance optical tr…
A magnetic lens for cold atoms controlled by a rf field
E. Marechal, B. Laburthe-Tolra, L. Vernac +2
We report on a new type of magnetic lens that focuses atomic clouds using a static inhomogeneous magnetic field in combination with a radio-frequency field. The experimental study…
Accumulation of chromium metastable atoms into an Optical Trap
R. Chicireanu, Q. Beaufils, A. Pouderous +5
We report the fast accumulation of a large number of metastable 52Cr atoms in a mixed trap, formed by the superposition of a strongly confining optical trap and a quadrupolar magne…
Simultaneous Magneto-Optical Trapping of Bosonic and Fermionic Chromium Atoms
R. Chicireanu, A. Pouderous, R. Barbe +5
We report on magneto-optical trapping of fermionic 53Cr atoms. A Zeeman-slowed atomic beam provides loading rates up to 3 10^6 /s. We present systematic characterization of the mag…