From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Magnetic trap (atoms)

Quality 0.00 · 3 views · Updated 10 days ago

In experimental physics, a magnetic trap is an apparatus which uses a magnetic field gradient to trap neutral particles with magnetic moments. Although such traps have been employed for many purposes in physics research, they are best known as the last stage in cooling atoms to achieve Bose–Einstein condensation. The magnetic trap (as a way of trapping very cold atoms) was first proposed by David E. Pritchard.