BEC in the Celestial City
First observation:
BEC! -
report: March 16, 2004
Group:
Chen Xu-Zong
Ma Xiu-Quan, Chen Shuai, Yang Fan, Xia Lin, Zhou Xiao-Ji, Wang Yi-Qiu, and Chen Xu-Zong
From Chinese Phys. Lett. submission:
"Observation of F = 2 Spinor Bose–Einstein Condensation in a Magnetic Field
Multiple-component Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed in a magnetic field generated by a controllable magnetic quadrupole-Ioffe-configuration trap. Different distributions of atoms in spinor Bose–Einstein condensates are created by changing the time difference of switching-off current in quadrupole-Ioffe-configuration coils and bias coils of the magnetic trap. A simple analysis is carried out to explain some phenomena of the experiment."
[Received 21 December 2004]
Ma Xiu-Quan et al 2005 Chinese Phys. Lett. 22 1106-1109