Fifty-fold improvement in the number of quantum degenerate fermionic atoms
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We have produced a quantum degenerate Li-6 Fermi gas with up to 7 x 10^7 atoms, an improvement by a factor of fifty over all previous experiments with degenerate Fermi gases. This was achieved by sympathetic cooling with bosonic Na-23 in the F=2, upper hyperfine ground state. We have also achieved Bose-Einstein condensation of F=2 sodium atoms by direct evaporation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306050,
title = {Fifty-fold improvement in the number of quantum degenerate fermionic atoms},
author = {Z. Hadzibabic and S. Gupta and C. A. Stan and C. H. Schunck and M. W. Zwierlein and K. Dieckmann and W. Ketterle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306050},
year = {2009}
}