Experimental Realization of Degenerate Fermi Gases of 87Sr Atoms with 10 or Two Spin Components

We report the experimental realization of quantum degenerate Fermi gases of87Sr atoms under controlled 10-and dual-nuclear-spin configurations.Based on laser cooling and evaporative cooling,we achieve an ultracold Fermi gas of 105 atoms equally distributed over 10 spin states,with a temperature of T/TF = 0.21.We further prepare a dual-spin gas by optically pumping atoms to the mF = 9/2 and mF = 7/2 states and observe a slightly lower T/TF than that for a 10-spin gas under the same trapping condition,showing efficient evaporative cooling under a decreasing number N of spin states(N≥2)despite the increasing importance of Pauli exclusion.Given that rethermalization becomes less efficient with N approaching unity,we evaporatively cool an almost polarized gas to 130 nK.The simple and efficient preparation of ultracold Fermi gases of 87Sr with tunable spin configurations provides a first step towards engineering topological quantum systems.

Production of Degenerate Fermi Gases of ~6Li Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap

We report the experimental production of degenerate Fermi gases of 6 Li atoms in an optical dipole trap.The gray-molasses technique is carried out to decrease the atomic temperature to 57 μK,which facilitates the efficient loading of cold atoms into the optical dipole trap.The Fermi degeneracy is achieved by evaporative cooling of a two-spin mixture of ~6 Li atoms on the Feshbach resonance.The degenerate atom number per spin is 3.5×10^(4),and the reduced temperature T/T_F is as low as 0.1,where T_F is the Fermi temperature of the non-interacting Fermi gas.We also observe the anisotropic expansion of the atom cloud in the strongly interacting regime.

Quantum degenerate Bose–Fermi atomic gas mixture of 23Na and 40K

We report a compact experimental setup for producing a quantum degenerate mixture of Bose23Na and Fermi40K gases. The atoms are collected in dual dark magneto–optical traps(MOT) with species timesharing loading to reduce the light-induced loss, and then further cooled using the gray molasses technique on the D2line for23Na and D1line for40K. The microwave evaporation cooling is used to cool23Na in |F = 2, mF= 2〉 in an optically plugged magnetic trap, meanwhile,40K in |F = 9/2, mF= 9/2〉 is sympathetically cooled. Then the mixture is loaded into a large volume optical dipole trap where23Na atoms are immediately transferred to |1, 1〉 for further effective cooling to avoid the strong three-body loss between23Na atoms in |2, 2〉 and40K atoms in |9/2, 9/2〉. At the end of the evaporation in optical trap, a degenerate Fermi gas of40K with 1.9 × 10^(5) atoms at T/TF= 0.5 in the |9/2, 9/2〉 hyperfine state coexists with a Bose–Einstein condensate(BEC) of23Na with 8 × 10^(4) atoms in the |1, 1〉 hyperfine state at 300 n K. We also can produce the two species mixture with the tunable population imbalance by adjusting the 23Na magneto–optical trap loading time.

Parallel propagating modes and anomalous spatial damping in the ultra-relativistic electron plasma with arbitrary degeneracy

The dispersion relations of parallel propagating modes（Langmuir mode, right and left handed circular polarized waves） in the weak magnetic field limit ｜ω-k·v｜ 〉〉 ？ are considered for ultra-relativistic arbitrary degenerate electron plasma. The results are presented in terms of moments of Fermi-Dirac distribution. The increase in the electron equilibrium number density from negative large（weakly degenerate） to positive large（highly degenerate） values of μ/Te is observed（where μ is the electron chemical potential and Te is the electron thermal energy）. As a result, shifting of the cutoff points in all the real dispersion branches towards the higher values and increasing in the band gap between unmagnetized longitudinal and transverse modes in k-space are examined. Also, the suppression of the weak magnetic field effects in weakly magnetized right handed and left handed circular polarized waves and a decrease in the longitudinal and transverse screening effects are observed in the graphical patterns due to an increase in the equilibrium number density.

非简谐势中两组分简并费米气体的集体激发

研究了在一个扭曲的谐振势中两组分简并费米气体的集体激发.运用变分法导出了1组描述两组分简并费米气体质心运动与宽度变化的耦合方程,获得了2个低能激发模.在不同的有效s波相互作用和有效p波相互作用下,分别讨论了由于势的非简谐改变引起的集体激发的频移和集体激发的塌缩与恢复.

非简谐势阱中有相互作用的两组分简并费米气体的稳定性

研究非简谐势阱中有短程相互作用的两组分简并费米气体在平均场理论下的稳定性问题.运用变分法推导出在有效s波相互作用和有效p波相互作用下系统在非简谐势阱中的稳定性条件,讨论了势阱的非简谐性以及有效p波相互作用对超冷费米气体稳定性的影响.结果表明势阱的非简谐性以及有效p波相互作用对系统的稳定性会产生影响,并且会对粒子数密度的分布产生影响.