Crossover from a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Degenerate Fermi Gas
Universität Innsbruck · Austrian Academy of Sciences · +1 more institution
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Abstract
We demonstrate a reversible conversion of a 6Li2 molecular Bose-Einstein condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of atoms by adiabatically crossing a Feshbach resonance. By optical in situ imaging, we observe a smooth change of the cloud size in the crossover regime. On the Feshbach resonance, the ensemble is strongly interacting and the measured cloud size is 75(7)% of the one of a noninteracting zero-temperature Fermi gas. The high condensate fraction of more than 90% and the adiabatic crossover suggest our Fermi gas to be cold enough to form a superfluid.
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- Crossover
- Bose–Einstein condensate
- Degenerate energy levels
- Physics
- Fermi gas
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Condensed matter physics
- Quantum mechanics
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