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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 45: Ultracold Atoms II (joint session Q/A)
A 45.3: Talk
Friday, March 9, 2018, 11:00–11:15, K 1.022
A two-species five-beam magneto-optical trap for highly magnetic Er and Dy atoms — •Arno Trautmann1, Philipp Ilzhöfer1,2, Gianmaria Durastante1,2, Alexander Patscheider1,2, Manfred Mark1,2, and Francesca Ferlaino1,2 — 1Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria — 2Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenoptik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
We report on the first realization of a two-species magneto-optical trap (MOT) for erbium and dysprosium. The MOT operates on an intercombination line for the respective species. Owing to the narrow-line character of such a cooling transition and the action of gravity, we demonstrate a novel trap geometry employing only five beams in orthogonal configuration. We observe that the mixture is cooled and trapped very efficiently, with up to 5× 108 Er atoms and 109 Dy atoms at temperatures of about 10 µK. Our results offer an ideal starting condition for the creation of a dipolar quantum mixture of highly magnetic atoms.