All-optical bubble trap for ultracold atoms in microgravity
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| author | Veyron, Romain Métayer, Clément Gérent, Jean-Baptiste Huang, Ruiyang Beraud, Eliott Garraway, Barry M. Bernon, Simon Battelier, Baptiste |
| author_facet | Veyron, Romain Métayer, Clément Gérent, Jean-Baptiste Huang, Ruiyang Beraud, Eliott Garraway, Barry M. Bernon, Simon Battelier, Baptiste |
| contents | In this paper, we present an all-optical method to produce shell-shaped traps for ultracold atoms in microgravity. Our scheme exploits optical double dressing of the ground state to create a short range strongly repulsive central potential barrier. Combined with a long range attractive central potential, this barrier forms the shell trap. We demonstrate that a pure spherical bubble, reaching the quasi 2D regime for standard atom numbers, could be formed from two crossed beams with a parabolic profile. An analytical study shows that the relevant characteristics of the trap depend on the ratio of the ground and excited state polarisabilities and the lifetime of the excited state. As a benchmark, we provide quantitative analysis of a realistic configuration for rubidium ensembles, leading to a 250 Hz transverse confinement for a 35 $μ$m radius bubble and a trap residual scattering rate of less than 10 s$^{-1}$. |
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| spellingShingle | All-optical bubble trap for ultracold atoms in microgravity Veyron, Romain Métayer, Clément Gérent, Jean-Baptiste Huang, Ruiyang Beraud, Eliott Garraway, Barry M. Bernon, Simon Battelier, Baptiste Atomic Physics Quantum Gases Quantum Physics In this paper, we present an all-optical method to produce shell-shaped traps for ultracold atoms in microgravity. Our scheme exploits optical double dressing of the ground state to create a short range strongly repulsive central potential barrier. Combined with a long range attractive central potential, this barrier forms the shell trap. We demonstrate that a pure spherical bubble, reaching the quasi 2D regime for standard atom numbers, could be formed from two crossed beams with a parabolic profile. An analytical study shows that the relevant characteristics of the trap depend on the ratio of the ground and excited state polarisabilities and the lifetime of the excited state. As a benchmark, we provide quantitative analysis of a realistic configuration for rubidium ensembles, leading to a 250 Hz transverse confinement for a 35 $μ$m radius bubble and a trap residual scattering rate of less than 10 s$^{-1}$. |
| title | All-optical bubble trap for ultracold atoms in microgravity |
| topic | Atomic Physics Quantum Gases Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05734 |