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Evaporative cooling of trapped fermionic atoms

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose an efficient mechanism for the evaporative cooling of trapped fermions directly into quantum degeneracy. Our idea is based on an electric field induced elastic interaction between trapped atoms in spin symmetric states. We discuss some novel general features of fermionic evaporative cooling and present numerical studies demonstrating the feasibility for the cooling of alkali metal fermionic species 6^6Li, 40^{40}K, and 82,84,86^{82,84,86}Rb. We also discuss the sympathetic cooling of fermionic hyperfine spin mixtures, including the effects of anisotropic interactions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9907222,
  title  = {Evaporative cooling of trapped fermionic atoms},
  author = {W. Geist and A. Idrizbegovic and M. Marinescu and T. A. B. Kennedy and L. You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9907222},
  year   = {2009}
}

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