Q. Beaufils, R. Chicireanu, A. Pouderous, B. Laburthe-Tolra, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, J. Keller, O. Gorceix
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Abstract
We report the fast accumulation of up to 1 million 52 Cr metastable atoms in a mixed trap formed by the superposition of a quadrupolar magnetic trap and a strongly confining optical trap. The cloud is at a temperature of 100 μ K with a peak density of 10 18 atoms/m 3 , which is a promising starting point to reach quantum degeneracy by forced evaporation in an optical trap.