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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 34: Poster 1
Q 34.24: Poster
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 16:30–19:00, Poster.I+II
Elastic and Inelastic Collisions of Single Cs Atoms in an Ultracold Rb Cloud — •Farina Kindermann2,1, Nicolas Spethmann1, Dieter Meschede1, and Artur Widera2,1 — 1Institut für angewandte Physik, Wegelerstr. 8, 53115 Bonn — 2TU Kaiserslautern, FB Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 46, 67663 Kaiserslautern
Ultracold gases doped with impurity atoms are promising hybrid systems that pave the way for investigation of a series of novel and interesting scenarios: They can be employed for studying polaron physics, the impurity atoms can act as coherent probes for the many-body system, and the coherent cooling of neutral atoms containing quantum information has been proposed. Here, we immerse single and few Cs atoms into an ultracold Rb cloud. Elastic collisions lead to rapid thermalization of both sub-systems, while inelastic collisions lead to a loss of Cs from the trap. When thermalized,the impurity atom is localized inside the Rb gas. The ultracold Rb gas remains effectively unaffected by the interaction with the Cs impurity atoms. The poster will present details of the experimental setup, sequence and data analysis needed to extract the interspecies scattering length and three-body loss coefficient from the thermalization dynamics and loss rates measured.