Quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 57 (1), 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00532-1
Abstract
We study the phase transition of a gas of 87Rb atoms to quantum degeneracy in the combined potential of a harmonically confining magnetic trap and the periodic potential of an optical lattice. For high optical lattice potentials we observe a significant change in the temperature dependency of the population of the ground state of the system. The experimental results are in good agreement with a model assuming the subsequent formation of quasi-2D condensates in the single lattice sites.Keywords
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