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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065022
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- DGA [2008/450]
- EU IEF [236240]
- IFRAF
- EU
- DARPA
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We report on the realization of a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a combined red-detuned optical dipole trap formed by two beams crossing in a horizontal plane and a third, tightly focused dimple trap (dT) propagating vertically. We produce a BEC in three main steps: loading of the crossed dipole trap from laser-cooled atoms, an intermediate evaporative cooling stage that results in efficient loading of the auxiliary dT, and a final evaporative cooling stage in the dT. Our protocol is implemented in a compact setup and allows us to reach quantum degeneracy even with relatively modest initial atom numbers and available laser power.
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