All-optical production of a degenerate Fermi gas

S. R. Granade; M. E. Gehm; Kenneth O'Hara; J. E. Thomas

All-optical production of a degenerate Fermi gas

S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, Kenneth O'Hara, J. E. Thomas

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Abstract

Direct evaporation in a CO₂ laser trap was done to achieve degeneracy in a mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states of ⁶Li, yielding the first all optically produced degenerate Fermi gas. Degeneracy was obtained by forced evaporation, accomplished by continuously lowering the trap depth and then adiabatically recompressing to full depth. The results achieved showed high evaporation efficiency χ ≡ ln(ρ_f/ρ_i)/ln(N_i/N_f).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1204051-1204054
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	88
Issue number	12
State	Published - Mar 25 2002

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