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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 62: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics V

Q 62.24: Poster

Thursday, March 8, 2018, 16:15–18:15, Redoutensaal

Optical transport of ultracold atoms for the production of groundstate RbYb — •Tobias Franzen, Bastian Pollklesener, Alexander Mietke, and Axel Görlitz — Institut für Experimentalphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Ultracold dipolar molecules constitute a promising system for the investigation of topics like ultracold chemistry, novel interactions in quantum gases, precision measurements and quantum information.

Here we report on a versatile transport apparatus for the production of ultracold RbYb molecules. This setup constitutes an improvement of our old apparatus, where the interactions in RbYb and possible routes to molecule production have already been studied extensively [1,2]. In the new setup a major goal is the efficient production of ground state RbYb molecules.

We employ optical tweezers to transport individually cooled samples of ultracold Rb and Yb from their separate production chambers to a dedicated science chamber. Here we transfer the atoms to a crossed dipole trap, where further evaporative cooling creates a starting point for the exploration of interspecies interactions and pathways towards ground state molecules.
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