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Light scattering for thermometry of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

Ruostekoski, J., Foot, C.J. and Deb, A.B. (2009) Light scattering for thermometry of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. Physical Review Letters, 103, (17), 170404-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.170404)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.170404

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We propose a method of using off-resonant light scattering to measure the temperature of fermionic atoms tightly confined in a two-dimensional optical-lattice potential. We show that fluctuations of the intensity in the far-field diffraction pattern arising from thermal correlations of the atoms can be accurately detected above the shot noise by collecting photons scattered in a forward direction, with the diffraction maxima blocked. The sensitivity of this method of thermometry is enhanced by an additional harmonic trapping potential

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0031-9007 (print)
Related URLs:http://scitation.aip.org/getab...s&gifs=yes
http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/Phys...103.170404
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Mathematics > Applied Mathematics
ePrint ID:69229
Deposited On:26 Oct 2009
Last Modified:01 Jun 2011 18:28

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