Abstract
The recent successes of several groups in producing a dilute, trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has generated exciting new possibilities for experiments with coherent matter waves. Several magnetic-trapping-field configurations have been used, including the timeorbiting potential (TOP) trap, which consists of the superposition of a static spherical quadruple field and a rotating field of constant magnitude.1 This trap produced the first BEC in gas samples containing ~104 atoms.1
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