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Quantitative analysis of B-lymphocyte migration directed by CXCL13
B-lymphocyte migration, directed by chemokine gradients, is essential for homing to sites of antigen presentation
Radiofrequency spectroscopy of a linear array of Bose-Einstein condensates in a magnetic lattice
We report site-resolved radiofrequency spectroscopy measurements of
Bose-Einstein condensates of 87Rb atoms in about 100 sites of a one-dimensional
10 micron-period magnetic lattice produced by a grooved magnetic film plus bias
fields. Site-to-site variations of the trap bottom, atom temperature,
condensate fraction and chemical potential indicate that the magnetic lattice
is remarkably uniform, with variations in trap bottoms of only +/- 0.4 mG. At
the lowest trap frequencies (radial and axial frequencies 1.5 kHz and 260 Hz,
respectively), temperatures down to 0.16 microkelvin are achieved in the
magnetic lattice and at the smallest trap depths (50 kHz) condensate fractions
up to 80% are observed. With increasing radial trap frequency (up to 20 kHz, or
aspect ratio up to about 80) large condensate fractions persist and the highly
elongated clouds approach the quasi-1D Bose gas regime. The temperature
estimated from analysis of the spectra is found to increase by a factor of
about five which may be due to suppression of rethermalising collisions in the
quasi-1D Bose gas. Measurements for different holding times in the lattice
indicate a decay of the atom number with a half-life of about 0.9 s due to
three-body losses and the appearance of a high temperature (about 1.5
microkelvin) component which is attributed to atoms that have acquired energy
through collisions with energetic three-body decay products