Limits to Sympathetic Evaporative Cooling of a Two-Component Fermi Gas
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We find a limit cycle in a quasi-equilibrium model of evaporative cooling of a two-component fermion gas. The existence of such a limit cycle represents an obstruction to reaching the quantum ground state evaporatively. We show that evaporatively the \beta\mu ~ 1. We speculate that one may be able to cool an atomic fermi gas further by photoassociating dimers near the bottom of the fermi sea.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9909014,
title = {Limits to Sympathetic Evaporative Cooling of a Two-Component Fermi Gas},
author = {M. Crescimanno and C. G. Koay and R. Peterson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9909014},
year = {2009}
}
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Submitted to Phys. Rev A