A High-Flux Source of Cold Strontium with a Loading Rate of 4×1010 atoms/s for Open Release
This paper presents a high-flux cold strontium source utilizing a 2D MOT and Zeeman slower that achieves a record loading rate of 4×1010 atoms/s into a 3D MOT, demonstrating compatibility with long-term operation and state-of-the-art quantum experiments while offering the design freely to the community.
Thomas Walker, Anna L. Marchant, Elliot Bentine, Oliver Buchmueller, Katherine Clarke, Christopher Foot, Leonie Hawkins, Kenneth M. Hughes, Kamran Hussain, Ludovico Iannizzotto-Venezze, Alice Josset (…)2026-03-27🔬 physics.atom-ph