Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules. When a spin mixture of fermionic Li-6 atoms was evaporatively cooled in an optical dipole trap near a Feshbach resonance, the atomic gas was converted into Li_2 molecules. Below 600 nK, a Bose-Einstein condensate of up to 900,000 molecules was identified by the sudden onset of a bimodal density distribution. This condensate realizes the limit of tightly bound fermion pairs in the crossover between BCS superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311617,
title = {Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules},
author = {M. W. Zwierlein and C. A. Stan and C. H. Schunck and S. M. F. Raupach and S. Gupta and Z. Hadzibabic and W. Ketterle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311617},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures