학술논문

Numerical study of evaporative cooling in the space station.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics. 1/16/2021, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p1-8. 8p.
Subject
*SPACE stations
*EVAPORATIVE cooling
*RUBIDIUM
*VIBRATION (Mechanics)
Language
ISSN
0953-4075
Abstract
In this paper, we numerically studied the effects of mechanical vibration and magnetic fields on evaporative cooling process carried in space station by direct simulation Monte Carlo method. Simulated with the vibration data of international space station, we found that the cooling process would suffer great atomic losses until the accelerations reduced tenfold at least. In addition, if we enlarge the s-wave scattering length five times by feshbach resonance, the phase space density increased to 50 compared to 3 of no magnetic fields situation after 5 s evaporative cooling. We also simulated the two stages crossed beam evaporative cooling process under both physical impacts and obtain 4 × 10585Rb atoms with a temperature of 8 pK. These results are of significance to the cold atom experiments carried out on space station in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]