Mixtures and Dual Species

[omar moutamani]

Hi everybody,

I am working on a cold atom experiment where I am dealing with a mixture of species (K and Rb). Has anybody ever tried the pylcp package in a similar condition ? If so, any insight would be much appreciated. 

Good luck on your research.

Cheers everybody,

Omar

[Eckel, Stephen P. (Fed)]

Hi Omar,

 

Could you give a better description of what you hope to calculate?  pylcp does not handle atom-atom interactions, so that really restricts what you might be interested in computing.

 

Best,

 

-Steve

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[omar moutamani]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for your fast reply.

I am trying to simulate a 2D and a 3D MOT to trap a mixture of Potassium and Rubidium. Basically, I want to find similar results to the ones shown in the examples on the PYLCP website, but for these two species.

Thanks again,

Omar

[Barker, Daniel S. (Fed)]

Hi Omar,

 

Pylcp should work for you in that case. You’ll just have to update the level structure/Hamiltonian for K/Rb and adapt the examples to fit your needs.

 

The atom class in pylcp is programmed with quantum numbers, g-factors, and transition rates for all the commonly laser-cooled alkali isotopes. It’s documentation is here: https://python-laser-cooling-physics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/atom_class.html. A good example to look at would be https://python-laser-cooling-physics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/MOTs/06_real_atoms_3D_MOT.html and then you can pull in parts of the MOT capture code as needed https://python-laser-cooling-physics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/MOTs/01_F0_to_F1_1D_MOT_capture.html.

 

Daniel

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