Ultra-High Efficiency Magnetic Transport of SZRb Atoms in a Single Chamber Bose-Einstein Condensation Apparatus

We report the ultra-high efficiency transport of cold ST Ftb atoms using a moving magnetic quadrupole potential generated by three overlapping pairs of fixed coils. The transfer etticiency is better than 97%, which is the highest ever reported to our knowledge. The temperature increase due to heating is less than IO #K when the initial cloud temperature is llO#K. Our setup is similar to the magnetic transferring belt design [Phys. ftev. A 63 （2001）031401（R）], although it is simpler because the push coil is not required. We use it to transport atoms away from a magneto-optical trap to very close to the wall of the glass cell, facilitating future experiments employing three-dimensional optical lattices, high resolution in-situ imaging, and magnetic Feshbach resonances.