All-optical production of a degenerate Fermi gas.

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We achieve degeneracy in a mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states of 6Li by direct evaporation in a CO2 laser trap, yielding the first all optically produced degenerate Fermi gas. More than 10(5) atoms are confined at temperatures below 4 microK at full trap depth, where the Fermi temperature for each state is 8 microK. This degenerate two-component mixture is ideal for exploring mechanisms of superconductivity ranging from Cooper pairing to Bose-Einstein condensation of strongly bound pairs.

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Cited Authors

Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; O'Hara, KM; Thomas, JE

Published Date

March 2002

Published In

Physical Review Letters

Volume / Issue

88 / 12

Start / End Page

120405 -

PubMed ID

11909435

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

1079-7114

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0031-9007

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1103/physrevlett.88.120405

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