Evaporative Cooling

Atomic physics technique that reaches high phase space densities by removing the hottest atoms — the road to Bose–Einstein condensation.

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An atomic physics technique to achieve high phase space densities, which optical cooling techniques alone typically cannot reach.
RF-driven evaporative cooling of rubidium atoms in a magnetic trap produced the first experimentally observed Bose–Einstein condensate.
Variants include radiofrequency-induced evaporation and optical evaporation.