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Degenerate Fermi Gas of $^{87}$Sr

Quantum Gases 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

We report quantum degeneracy in a gas of ultra-cold fermionic 87^{87}Sr atoms. By evaporatively cooling a mixture of spin states in an optical dipole trap for 10.5\,s, we obtain samples well into the degenerate regime with T/TF=0.26.06+.05T/T_F=0.26^{+.05}_{-.06}. The main signature of degeneracy is a change in the momentum distribution as measured by time-of-flight imaging, and we also observe a decrease in evaporation efficiency below T/TF0.5T/T_F \sim 0.5.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0668,
  title  = {Degenerate Fermi Gas of $^{87}$Sr},
  author = {B. J. DeSalvo and M. Yan and P. G. Mickelson and Y. N. Martinez de Escobar and T. C. Killian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0668},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures