
Construction of an ultracold sodium-potassium mixture machine
Date
January 26, 2017 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location
Howey Physics Bldg. 837 State St. Atlanta, GA 30332 - Rm. N110
Speaker
Affiliation
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Host
School of Physics Hard Condensed Matter & AMO Seminar: Dr. Yun Long, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Quantum degenerate polar molecules have attracted wide research interest in recent years, for they offer great opportunities to study dipolar many-body physics, ultracold chemistry and new quantum information processing methods. In this talk, I describe the construction of a NaK apparatus aimed at creating NaK dipole molecular. So far, we have obtained a 10 million atom sodium BEC with lifetime as long as 80s, and a 4 million atom 40K MOT from natural abundant source. We discuss three possible strategies of loading a dual species MOT, which is an important step towards quantum degenerate mixtures.