Light scattering for thermometry of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

Ruostekoski, J. and Foot, C.J. and Deb, A.B. (2009) Light scattering for thermometry of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. Physical review letters, 103 (17). ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

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

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Journal Article
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Physical review letters
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123673
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Deposited On:
26 Feb 2018 12:04
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