articlePhysical Review LettersMar 23, 2004GREEN OA

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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Keywords
  • Crossover
  • Bose–Einstein condensate
  • Degenerate energy levels
  • Physics
  • Fermi gas
  • Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Quantum mechanics
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