Download or read book Design and Characterization of Quadrupole-Ioffe (QUIC) trap for Bose-Einstein Condensation written by Prashant Povel Dwivedi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2020 in the subject Physics - Optics, grade: 2, Manipal University (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering - Manipal University Jaipur), course: Research, language: English, abstract: Magnetic traps for neutral atoms play an important role in achieving Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of atomic gases. The simplest way to magnetically trap atoms is to use the quadrupole field created by two coils with currents in opposite directions. In this configuration the atoms with appropriate spin state can be trapped at the middle of the coil where field is zero. For an atom in a weak-field-seeking state, atom are trapped at minima of magnetic field. The potential in a quadrupole trap grows linearly with distance from the trap center, where the magnetic field is zero. The major shortcoming of quadrupole traps is that cold atoms are removed from the trap due to Majorana flips at the trap center. This problem was overcome in time-averaged orbiting potential (TOP) traps and in Ioffe-Pritchard (IP) traps, which are both successfully used in current BEC experiments. However, the TOP trap is somewhat limited in its applications due to the low trap depth and the peculiarities arising from the rotating field. On the other hand, Ioffe traps require large currents and typically dissipate several kilowatts of power, which causes cooling, stabilization, and switching problems. Quadrupole Ioffe configuration (QUIC) trap consists of two identical quadrupole coils and one Ioffe coil, which is conical type, which operated at low currents and has no problem of spin flips at trap center because of finite field at the center. This trap dissipates less power, which simplifies the heat removal. If the current through the Ioffe coil is ramped from zero to its final value, the trapping potential smoothly changes from a quadrupole to an Ioffe potential. A current Iq through the quadrupole coils produces a spherical quadrupole trap in the center of the two coils. The trap is converted into the Ioffe configuration by turning on the current Iioffe through the Ioffe coil. With increasing current Iioffe the magnetic zero of the quadrupole is shifted towards the Ioffe coil. At certain value of Iioffe, the trap produce a non-vanishing offset field B0 and exhibit a harmonic variation of the potential close to the trap minimum. The advantage of the QUIC trap is that much lower currents are required and the coils can remain outside the vacuum. The disadvantage of this design is that the field minimum has moved toward the Ioffe Coil. This place a limit on optical access to the BEC QUIC trap generates a small finite magnetic field at the minimum of potential energy for BEC.