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Near Feshbach resonances, $n|a|^3\gg 1$, systems of Bose and Fermi particles become strongly interacting/dense. In this unitary limit both bosons and fermions have very different properties than in a dilute gas, e.g., the energy per…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Heiselberg

Systems consisting of few interacting fermions are the building blocks of matter with atoms and nuclei being the most prominent examples. We have created an artificial few-body quantum system with complete control over the system's quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-17 F. Serwane , G. Zürn , T. Lompe , T. B. Ottenstein , A. N. Wenz , S. Jochim

The use of Feshbach resonances for tuning the interparticle interaction in ultracold Fermi gases has led to remarkable developments, in particular to the creation and Bose-Einstein condensation of weakly bound diatomic molecules of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-13 D. S. Petrov , C. Salomon , G. V. Shlyapnikov

We study fermionic pairing in an ultracold two-component gas of $^6$Li atoms by observing an energy gap in the radio-frequency excitation spectra. With control of the two-body interactions via a Feshbach resonance we demonstrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Chin , M. Bartenstein A. Altmeyer , S. Riedl , S. Jochim , J. Hecker Denschlag , R. Grimm

Quantum-degenerate Fermi gases provide a remarkable opportunity to study strongly interacting fermions. In contrast to other Fermi systems, such as superconductors, neutron stars or the quark-gluon plasma, these gases have low densities and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Zwierlein , J. R. Abo-Shaeer , A. Schirotzek , C. H. Schunck , W. Ketterle

We compare the efficiency of four-wave mixing in quantum degenerate gases of bosonic and fermionic atoms. It is shown that matter-wave gratings formed from either bosonic or fermionic atoms can in principle exhibit nearly identical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. G. Moore , Pierre Meystre

We report on the first creation of ultracold bosonic heteronuclear molecules of two fermionic species, 6Li and 40K, by a magnetic field sweep across an interspecies s-wave Feshbach resonance. This allows us to associate up to 4x10^4…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. -C. Voigt , M. Taglieber , L. Costa , T. Aoki , W. Wieser , T. W. Hänsch , K. Dieckmann

We report on the generation of a quantum degenerate Fermi-Fermi mixture of two different atomic species. The quantum degenerate mixture is realized employing sympathetic cooling of fermionic Li-6 and K-40 gases by an evaporatively cooled…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Taglieber , A. -C. Voigt , T. Aoki , T. W. Hänsch , K. Dieckmann

Dynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases, consisting of a 50-50 mixture of two different fermionic species, is investigated. For the equation of state we consider a Pad\'{e} [2/2] approximations, which gives the weak-coupling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yeong E. Kim , Alexander L. Zubarev

Using a Feshbach resonance, we create ultracold fermionic molecules starting from a Bose-Fermi atom gas mixture. The resulting mixture of atoms and weakly bound molecules provides a rich system for studying few-body collisions because of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 J. J. Zirbel , K. -K. Ni , S. Ospelkaus , J. P. D'Incao , C. E. Wieman , J. Ye , D. S. Jin

We theoretically evaluate the feasibility to form magnetically-tunable Feshbach molecules in collisions between fermionic $^6$Li atoms and bosonic metastable $^{174}$Yb($^3$P$_2$) atoms. In contrast to the well-studied alkali-metal atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alexander Petrov , Constantinos Makrides , Svetlana Kotochigova

We consider a single quantum particle in a spherical box interacting with a fixed scatterer at the center, to construct a model of a degenerate atomic Fermi gas close to a Feshbach resonance. One of the key predictions of the model is the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ludovic Pricoupenko , Yvan Castin

We study the properties of dilute bosons immersed in a single component Fermi sea across a broad boson-fermion Feshbach resonance. The stability of the mixture requires that the bare interaction between bosons exceeds a critical value,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Zeng-Qiang Yu , Shizhong Zhang , Hui Zhai

We report on observations and modeling of interspecies magnetic Feshbach resonances in dilute ultracold mixtures of open-shell alkali-metal $^6$Li and closed-shell $^{173}$Yb atoms with temperatures just above quantum degeneracy for both…

We investigate states of fermionic atoms across a broad Feshbach resonance in an optical superlattice which allows interaction only among a small number of lattice sites. The states are in general described by superpositions of atomic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Goodman , L. -M. Duan

Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in ultracold quantum gases. They have found numerous experimental applications, opening up the way to important breakthroughs. This Review broadly covers…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-04 Cheng Chin , Rudolf Grimm , Paul Julienne , Eite Tiesinga

We investigate trapped resonant fermions with unequal populations within the local density approximation above the superfluid transition temperature. By tuning the attractive interaction between fermions via Feshbach resonance, the system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi-Ho Cheng , Sung-Kit Yip

Interacting Fermi gases with spin-orbit coupling are responsible for many intriguing phenomena such as topological superfluids and Majorana fermions. Here we characterize theoretically fermionic pairing in a strongly interacting spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-15 Hui Hu , Han Pu , Jing Zhang , Xia-Ji Liu

Atomic Fermi gases provide an ideal platform for studying the pairing and superfluid physics, using a Feshbach resonance between closed channel molecular states and open channel scattering states. Of particular interest is the strongly…

We have studied interacting and non-interacting quantum degenerate Fermi gases in a three-dimensional optical lattice. We directly image the Fermi surface of the atoms in the lattice by turning off the optical lattice adiabatically. Due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Köhl , Henning Moritz , Thilo Stöferle , Kenneth Günter , Tilman Esslinger