dc.contributor.advisor | Schwettmann, Arne | |
dc.contributor.author | Bhagat, Anita | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-01T14:08:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-01T14:08:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/51859 | |
dc.description.abstract | Spin-exchange collisions in quantum degenerate gases act as a nonlinear interaction that creates entanglement between atoms in different spin states. Therefore, they make it possible to study matter-wave quantum nonlinear optics in spin space. In my work towards creating a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium to study these collisions, I made improvements to a laser cooling and trapping apparatus that are detailed in this thesis. I implemented and tested an imaging system for absorption and fluorescence imaging. I used this imaging system to optimize a laser cooling and trapping apparatus to yield trapped atom numbers of 6.3 x 108 and sub-Doppler temperatures of 65.0(1) μK. These numbers and temperatures provide a good starting point for further cooling via forced evaporation in a crossed optical dipole trap and will allow the group to reach Bose-Einstein condensate temperatures of ~ 100 nK in near future. | en_US |
dc.language | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Condensates | en_US |
dc.subject | Sodium | en_US |
dc.subject | Matter-wave | en_US |
dc.subject | Bose-Einstein | en_US |
dc.title | An Apparatus to study matter-wave quantum optics in sodium spinor Bose-Einstein condensates | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | James, Shaffer | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Marino, Alberto | |
dc.date.manuscript | 2017-07-28 | |
dc.thesis.degree | Master of Science | en_US |
ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
shareok.orcid | 0000-0002-0407-5507 | en_US |