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Institute for Quantum Physics
Institute for
Quantum Physics

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Femto BEC News (2024)

5 April 2024|ILP Sengstock

Cooling dynamics of a free ion in a Bose-Einstein condensate

A cloud of ultracold atoms can cool and completely stop an ion excited by a laser beam. Due to its charge, it polarizes the Bose-Einstein condensate.

Photo: L. Oghittu / Ph. Wessels-Staarmann

We investigate the dynamics of an ion moving through a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) after an initial momentum is imparted. For this, we...