Understanding the production of dual BEC with sympathetic cooling

G. Delannoy, S. G. Murdoch, V. Boyer +3

We show, both experimentally and theoretically, that sympathetic cooling of ${}^{87}$Rb atoms in the $|F=2,m_F=2>$ state by evaporatively cooled atoms in the $|F=1,m_F=-1>$ state can…