Fermions on atom chips
Abstract
We review our recent and ongoing work with Fermi gases on an atom chip. After reviewing some statistical and thermodynamic properties of the ideal, non-interacting Fermi gas, and a brief description of our atom chip and its capabilities, we discuss our experimental approach to producing a potassium-40 degenerate Fermi gas (DFG) using sympathetic cooling by a rubidium-87 Bose-Einstein condensate on an atom chip. In doing so, we describe the factors affecting the loading efficiency of the atom chip microtrap. This is followed by a discussion of species selectivity in radio frequency manipulation of the Bose-Fermi mixture, which we explore in the context of sympathetic evaporative cooling and radio-frequency dressed adiabatic double-well potentials. Next, we describe the incorporation of a crossed-beam dipole trap into the atom chip setup, in which we generate and manipulate strongly interacting spin mixtures of potassium-40. Finally, we conclude with a brief discussion of future research directions with DFGs and atom chips.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.1401,
title = {Fermions on atom chips},
author = {Marcius H. T. Extavour and Lindsay J. LeBlanc and Jason McKeever and Alma B. Bardon and Seth Aubin and Stefan Myrskog and Thorsten Schumm and Joseph H. Thywissen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1401},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
33 pages, 10 figures. This article is to be included in a forthcoming, broader volume on atom chips; ISBN 978-3-527-40755-2. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany