Spying on Quantum Gases
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 5 Story 2 - 11/5/2009

Looking inside the trap

The electron beam is scanned through the BEC very quickly. Since only few atoms are ionized during each run (left), this process is repeated 300 times to acquire an image of the spatial distribution of the atoms (right).
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Looking inside the trap. The electron beam is scanned through the BEC very quickly. Since only few atoms are ionized during each run (left), this process is repeated 300 times to acquire an image of the spatial distribution of the atoms (right).