Abstract
We describe a proof-of-principle experiment on a fully permanent magnet atom chip. We study ultracold atoms and produce a Bose-Einstein condensate. The magnetic trap is loaded efficiently by adiabatic transport of a magnetic trap via the application of uniform external fields. Radio frequency spectroscopy is used for in-trap analysis and to determine the temperature of the atomic cloud. The formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate is observed in time-of-flight images and as a narrow peak appearing in the radio frequency spectrum.
1 More- Received 18 May 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033409
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