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View SchemaStable, Strongly Attractive, Two-State Mixture of Lithium Fermions in an Optical Trap
| Authors | K. M. O'Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, S. Bali, J. E. Thomas |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0009026 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0009026 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2092 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2092 (2000) |
Abstract
We use an all-optical trap to confine a strongly attractive two-state mixture of lithium fermions. By measuring the rate of evaporation from the trap, we determine the effective elastic scattering cross section (4 PI a^2) to show that the magnitude of the scattering length |a| is very large, in agreement with predictions. We show that the mixture is stable against inelastic decay provided that a small bias magnetic field is applied. For this system, the s-wave interaction is widely tunable at low magnetic field, and can be turned on and off rapidly via a Raman PI pulse. Hence, this mixture is well suited for fundamental studies of an interacting Fermi gas.
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"title": "Stable, Strongly Attractive, Two-State Mixture of Lithium Fermions in an Optical Trap",
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