Experiments with Ultra-cold Atoms in a Double-well Magnetic Trap

University of Otago

11.30am, Wednesday 26 November 2003, EN413, Engineering Building, Swinburne

Recently we developed a double-well magnetic trapping scheme which is a hybrid of the familiar Ioffe-Pritchard and time-averaged orbiting potential (TOP) traps. With a readily controllable barrier height and well separation this trap is a new tool for studying ultra-cold atoms, including Bose-Einstein condensates. In this talk I will describe the double-well trap, present results of evaporative cooling of rubidium, and discuss a d-wave scattering resonance in ultra-cold collisions bewteen two thermal atomic clouds.

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