We achieve a highly degenerate and strongly interacting Fermi gas in a mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states of 6 Li by direct evaporative cooling in a high power crossed optical dipole trap. The trap is loaded f...We achieve a highly degenerate and strongly interacting Fermi gas in a mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states of 6 Li by direct evaporative cooling in a high power crossed optical dipole trap. The trap is loaded from a large atom number magneto-optical trap realized by a laser system of Z5-W intracavity-frequency-doubled light output at 671 nm. With this system, we also demonstrate the production of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate （reBEC） of 6Li2, and observe the anisotropic expansion of Fermi gases in the so-called BEC-Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer crossover regime.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11374101the Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant No 13PJ1402500
文摘We achieve a highly degenerate and strongly interacting Fermi gas in a mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states of 6 Li by direct evaporative cooling in a high power crossed optical dipole trap. The trap is loaded from a large atom number magneto-optical trap realized by a laser system of Z5-W intracavity-frequency-doubled light output at 671 nm. With this system, we also demonstrate the production of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate （reBEC） of 6Li2, and observe the anisotropic expansion of Fermi gases in the so-called BEC-Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer crossover regime.
