Cooling-limits

Meanwhile, experiments have shown that, in fact, temperatures lower than this calculated Doppler limit can be reached [14.41-43]. 

This field shows a z-dependent elliptical polarization For z = 0 it has linear polarization along the direction = (S + y) ( i = 2 being assumed), for z = A/8 it has elliptical a polarization, for z = A/4 again linear polarization along 2 = (S-Sy), for z = 3A/8 elliptical polarization, etc. (Fig.l4.15a). 

The electric field E(z,t) causes a shift and broadening of the atomic Zeeman levels (AC Stark shift) that depends on the saturation parameter which, in turn, depends on the transition probability, the polarization of E and the frequency detuning Wl-Wq- I differs for the different Zeeman transitions. Since the a transition starting from g.1/2 is three times as intense as that from g+1/2 (Fig.l4.15b) the light shift A of g.i/2 is three times the shift A+ of g+i/2- If the atom is moved to z = (3/8)A, the situation is reversed since now pumping occurs onaa transition. 

The z-dependent energy shift of the ground-state sublevel therefore follows the curve of Fig. 14.15c. For those z values, where a linearly polarized light field is present, the transition probabilities and light shifts are equal for the two sublevels. 

Because the population density (indicated by the magnitude of the dots in Fig. 14.15c) is larger in the minimum than in the maxima, of the potentials Epot(z), the atom climbs on the average more uphill that downhill. It therefore transfers part of its kinetic energy to photon energy and is therefore cooled. 

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Low-temperature cooling limits are specified for each month of the year in the various states of the United States. Gasoline must meet these low-temperature limits for water tolerance before it can be marketed and sold. In addition to gasoline, water tolerance requirements also exist for jet fuel, diesel fuel, and heating oil. 

SUB-DOPPUIR COOLING In 1988 the NIST-Gaithersburg group made careful measurements of the temperature of atoms laser cooled in optical molasses, cind found temperatures significantly below the Doppler cooling limit 113). The initial measurements on laser cooled sodium atoms gave temperatures of about 40 pK, about six times lower tham the predicted lower limit of 240 pK. 

The plan for capital projects should be developed as well if operational changes cannot bring the fuel gas long back into balance. Examples include removing column overhead cooling limits, which could minimize LPG lost to fuel gas. This could be achieved by better cooling using advanced heat transfer equipment. 

Figure 24.1 shows the instantaneous disproportionation rate as a function of pH and temperature. During hypochlorite production, adequate agitation and an excess of hydroxide is usually maintained to prevent localized areas of low pH where hypochlorite rapidly disproportionates. The figure also shows how adequate cooling limits decomposition by disproportionation. 

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Fast heating and cooling limits the inversion. Research has shown that in the preparation of 500 g Sugar syrup, heating caused no additional inversion. Heating at 100 °C for 1 h caused about 1 % inversion. Decreasing the pH, for example by carbonic acid in using water that has been boiled for too short a time, accelerates inversion. 

The value of the temperature in eqn (5.3) is nowadays referred to as the Doppler temperature or Doppler cooling limit. At a typical value of the natural hnewidth of an allowed transition 2y = 27t X 10 MHz, the temperature To is of the order of 100 pK. Because of the great promise that laser cooling and subsequent laser trapping of atoms held for laser spectroscopy, researchers at the Institute of Spectroscopy in Troitsk, Russia, launched experiments in this field. By the time the first successful experiment was conducted (Andreyev et al. 1981, 1982), the first theoretical work, summarized in a review of the manipulation of atoms by the light pressure force of a resonant laser (Letokhov and Minogin 1981a), had already been completed. 

When the red frequency detuning of the laser radiation is optimal for cooling purposes, that is, when Z = — 7, the temperature T, reaches the minimum value given by eqn (5.3), which usually lies in the millikelvin range. As stated earlier, the temperature Td is usually referred to as the Doppler cooling limit. 

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