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Evaporative cooling of trapped atoms is described as a sequence of truncation of the high-energy tail of the thermal distribution followed by collisional relaxation. This model is solved analytically for arbitrary power-law potentials. The threshold density for accelerated evaporation is. found to be lowest in a three-dimensional linear potential.
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Dedicated to H. Walther on the occasion of his 60th birthday