Overlapping Bose-Einstein condensates of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Na</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>23</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:math> and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Cs</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>133</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:math>
Claire Warner, Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli, Henry C. Liu, Ian Stevenson, Sebastian Will
Abstract
The authors demonstrate experimentally the creation of dual-species Bose-Einstein condensates of ${}^{23}$Na atoms and ${}^{133}$Cs atoms. The mixture is shown to be miscible and to have a long lifetime of tens of seconds, which could potentially allow the creation of ground-state NaCs molecules in the future.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsGround stateState (computer science)Atomic physicsAlgorithmComputer scienceCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism