Title :
Progress toward a degenerate Fermi gas of lithium
Author :
Salomon, Christophe
Author_Institution :
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We describe steps towards the production of a Fermi degenerate of atomic lithium. The experimental approach is to perform sympathetic cooling of /sup 6/Li via elastic collisions with evaporatively cooled /sup 7/Li. In a strongly confining Ioffe-Pritchard trap, evaporative cooling of 7Li to the quantum degenerate regime has been performed. The implication for the achievement of the /sup 6/Li Fermi degeneracy is discussed.
Keywords :
Bose-Einstein condensation; atom-atom collisions; cooling; fermion systems; lithium; radiation pressure; /sup 6/Li Fermi degeneracy; Li; atomic lithium; degenerate Fermi gas; elastic collisions; evaporatively cooled /sup 7/Li; quantum degenerate regime; strongly confining Ioffe-Pritchard trap; sympathetic cooling; Atom optics; Cooling; Lithium; Production;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Nice, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6318-3
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC.2000.908135
