A continuous source of Bose-Einstein condensed sodium atoms was created by periodically replenishing a condensate held in an optical dipole trap with new condensates delivered using optical tweezers. The source contained more than 1 x 10(6) atoms at all times, raising the possibility of realizing a continuous atom laser.

Purpose To determine patient factors and eye conditions associated with artifacts in Spectralis optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) scans. Design Retrospective cross-sectional study. Methods The prevalence of twelve artifact types were described in this review of 2313 eye scans from 1188 patients who underwent a complete eye exam with Spectralis OCT scanning during the period of September 2009 to July 2013. Generalized estimating equations model was utilized to analyze associations between increased artifact prevalence and 10 patient characteristics, which included age, sex, race, visual acuity, refractive error, astigmatism, cataract status, glaucoma staging, visual field reliability, and glaucoma diagnosis. Results A total of 1070 or 46.3% of the 2313 eye scans had at least one artifact. De-centration error was the most common artifact (27.8%), followed by posterior vitreous detachment artifacts (14.4%). Visual acuity of less than 20/40 (p<0.0001), presence of moderate to severe cataracts (p<0.0001), advanced stage of glaucoma (p<0.0001), and a diagnosis of open angle glaucoma (p=0.0003) were associated with increased prevalence of artifacts. Conclusions Clinicians should first assess scans for artifacts before making therapeutic decisions based on RNFL thickness measurements.

Imidogen (NH) radicals are magnetically trapped and their Zeeman relaxation and energy transport collision cross sections with helium are measured. Continuous buffer-gas loading of the trap is direct from a room-temperature molecular beam. The Zeeman relaxation (inelastic) cross section of magnetically trapped electronic, vibrational and rotational ground state imidogen in collisions with 3 He is measured to be 3.8 ± 1.1 × 10 −19 cm 2 at 710 mK. The NH-He energy transport cross section is also measured, indicating a ratio of diffusive to inelastic cross sections of γ = 7 × 10 4 , in agreement with recent theory [1].