The main components of this simulation program were developed as a master thesis in the working group of Professor Pohl at the University of Mainz. One project of the group aims at decelerating Lithium atoms using a Zeeman slower and catch the slowed atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). Therefor, the atom species, simulation parameters and experiental setup used in this repository as an example are those of the Lithium experiment. The current simulation is a revised version of the old simulation. The improvement of the simulation was again the focus of a master thesis.

Using the setup files in the example folder sim_setup you can run

python main.py --sim_params_file sim_setup/sim_parameter_Li_6.json --exp_params_file sim_setup/exp_setup_Li_6.json --atom_params_file sim_setup/atom_parameter_Li_6.json --raw_magnetic_field_data sim_setup/example_magnetic_field.txt --max_step_size sim_setup/example_magnetic_field_maximum_step_length.txt

and get simulation results (log file, plots) in a result folder (simulation_results). A short help is provided running the command

python main.py -h

Python 3 has to be installed to use the simulation. All python package prerequisites are listed in the requirements.txt. Install the packages via

pip install requirements.txt

• Andreas Wieltsch - anwielts
• Julia Daum - juliadevindor

This project is licensed under the GNU License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

• Prof. Randolf Pohl, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz
• Prof. Elmar Schömer, Institute of Computer Science, University of Mainz
• Dr. Stefan Schmidt, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz
• Marcel Willig, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz
• Jan Haack, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz
• Thomas Udem