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Ultracold atomic collisions in tight harmonic traps: Perturbation theory, ionization losses and application to metastable helium atoms
T J Beams, G Peach, I B Whittingham
Published 2004-08-29Version 1
Collisions between tightly confined atoms can lead to ionization and hence to loss of atoms from the trap. We develop second-order perturbation theory for a tensorial perturbation of a spherically symmetric system and the theory is then applied to processes mediated by the spin-dipole interaction. Redistribution and loss mechanisms are studied for the case of spin-polarized metastable helium atoms and results obtained for the five lowest s states in the trap and trapping frequencies ranging from 1 kHz to 10 MHz.
Comments: 13 pages, LaTeX2e
Categories: physics.atom-ph
Keywords: metastable helium atoms, tight harmonic traps, ultracold atomic collisions, perturbation theory, ionization losses
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