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Homework 5: Due in Class On Dec. 5

This homework assignment on optical molasses and atom trapping due on December 5th contains 5 problems: 1) Find the maximum damping rate and detuning for rubidium atoms in a 1D optical molasses. 2) Calculate the damping time constant for rubidium atoms in microseconds. 3) Find the internuclear distance and height of a d-wave barrier for the van der Waals interaction between rubidium atoms. 4) Calculate the elastic collision rate and sample the collision rate for trapped rubidium atoms. 5) Derive the scattering cross section for a 3D hard sphere potential by solving the radial Schrodinger equation.

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Homework 5: Due in Class On Dec. 5

This homework assignment on optical molasses and atom trapping due on December 5th contains 5 problems: 1) Find the maximum damping rate and detuning for rubidium atoms in a 1D optical molasses. 2) Calculate the damping time constant for rubidium atoms in microseconds. 3) Find the internuclear distance and height of a d-wave barrier for the van der Waals interaction between rubidium atoms. 4) Calculate the elastic collision rate and sample the collision rate for trapped rubidium atoms. 5) Derive the scattering cross section for a 3D hard sphere potential by solving the radial Schrodinger equation.

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Homework 5

Due in class on Dec. 5


Be sure to show your work and explain what you are doing. (Correct
answers, for which we cannot follow the work, are worth no credit).
You are encouraged to use math softwares. But once again, please
dont just give one big equation and the final answer.

2. Optical molasses (10 points)


(a) For rubidium atoms driven near the 5s-5p resonance line at 780 nm, find the maximum possible
damping rate in s-1 for a one-dimensional optical molasses. For what detuning is this maximum
rate achieved? The lifetime of the 5p state is 25.7 nsec (more specifically, this is for the 5p3/2 fine

HW5.nb

structure level, the one ordinarily used for laser cooling).


(b) What is the corresponding damping time constant for the rubidium atoms? Evaluate the actual
number, in microseconds.
3. (10 points)
The Van der Waals long range interaction between Rb atoms has a coefficient c6 = 4426 atomic units.
For non-s wave scattering, there is a potential barrier. Please find (1) The interanuclear distance where
the d-wave barrier happens; (2) The d-wave barrier height in K.
4. (10 points)
Thermalization between trapped atom depends on the elastic collisions. Assume a ultracld sample
inside the trap has a Gaussian density distribution with RMS width x , y and z

x2

nr = npeak exp- 2 2 x

y2
2 y 2

z2
,
2 z 2

and the sample temperature is T. The scattering length is a. Calucate (1) The elastic collision rate in
terms of T, a and npeak . (2) Calculate the collision rate for Rb atoms with a = 100 a0 , T = 100 K and
npeak = 1012 cm-3 .
5. Scattering cross section for a 3-D hard sphere potential
The hard-sphere potential is
r<R
V (r) =
0 r>R
Lets look at the radial equation r2 -U (r) + k2 u (r) = 0. Try to get the scattering cross section.

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