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2006 Cs Experiment
Proposal: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Cesium
In the same sense that the laser has become a fundamental tool in nonlinear and quantum optics, Bose-Einstein condensation as a source of coherent atoms serves as the starting point for many studies of interacting atomic quantum gases. Bose-condensation of atomic cesium is particularly useful as a first step in studying strongly interacting gases, molecular condensation, few-body interactions, and condensed-matter analog systems showing quantum coherence. At the same time, cesium remained for many years a challenging atom to condense. Our group was the second to achieve this milestone, following the pioneering work achieved in the group of R. Grimm in Innsbruck. Our apparatus is described below.
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