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Interspecies thermalization in an ultracold mixture of Cs and Yb in an optical trap

Guttridge, A.; Hopkins, S.A.; Kemp, S.L.; Frye, M.D.; Hutson, J.M.; Cornish, S.L.

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Authors

A. Guttridge

S.A. Hopkins

S.L. Kemp

M.D. Frye



Abstract

We present measurements of interspecies thermalization between ultracold samples of 133Cs and either 174Yb or 170Yb. The two species are trapped in a far-off-resonance optical dipole trap and 133Cs is sympathetically cooled by Yb. We extract effective interspecies thermalization cross sections by fitting the thermalization measurements to a kinetic model, giving σCs174Yb = (5 ± 2) × 10−13 cm2 and σCs170Yb = (18 ± 8) × 10−13 cm2. We perform quantum scattering calculations of the thermalization cross sections and optimize the CsYb interaction potential to reproduce the measurements. We predict scattering lengths for all isotopic combinations of Cs and Yb. We also demonstrate the independent production of 174Yb and 133Cs Bose-Einstein condensates using the same optical dipole trap, an important step toward the realization of a quantum-degenerate mixture of the two species.

Citation

Guttridge, A., Hopkins, S., Kemp, S., Frye, M., Hutson, J., & Cornish, S. (2017). Interspecies thermalization in an ultracold mixture of Cs and Yb in an optical trap. Physical Review A, 96(1), Article 012704. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.96.012704

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 6, 2017
Online Publication Date Jul 14, 2017
Publication Date Jul 14, 2017
Deposit Date Jul 14, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review A
Print ISSN 2469-9926
Electronic ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 96
Issue 1
Article Number 012704
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.96.012704

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