Thermalization of magnetically trapped metastable helium
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- 21 February 2001
Abstract
We have observed thermalization by elastic collisions of magnetically trapped metastable helium atoms. Our method directly samples the reconstruction of a thermal energy distribution after the application of an RF knife. The relaxation time of our sample towards equilibrium gives an elastic collision rate constant close to the unitarity limit.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2001-02-21, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review A, 64 (3), 034703.
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