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Experiments with Interacting Bose and Fermi Gases
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Stan, Claudiu A. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | In the past few years, the study of trapped fermionic atoms evolved from the first cooling experiments which produced quantum degenerate samples to becoming one of the most exciting branches of current atomic physics research. This thesis covers experiments done throughout this period, which can be grouped in three sets of studies. First, degenerate Li Fermi gases have been produced by sympathethic cooling with bosonic Na. For this, an existing Na Bose-Einstein condensation apparatus was upgraded to an experiment capable of producing degenerate Li Fermi gases and Li–Na degenerate Fermi-Bose mixtures. The cooling methods have been developed in two different stages, resulting in the production of degenerate Li Fermi gases with temperatures below 0.05 TF and up to 7× 10 atoms, and of degenerate Li–Na mixtures with a few million atoms in each of the components. Second, the properties of Li–Na mixtures at different magnetic fields have been investigated, resulting in the discovery of three interspecies Li–Na Feshbach resonances, which opens up the possibility to study strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixtures in this system. This investigations also led to the observation of other Feshbach resonances in Li and Na. Third, the properties of strongly interacting Li spin mixtures in the strong interacting regime near a Feshbach resonance have been investigated. Weakly bound Li2 molecules have been produced and Bose condensed on the repulsive side of the Feshbach resonance. Pure molecular condensates with up to 3 × 10 molecules have been produced. The properties of the interacting Fermi gas were investigated on the attractive side of the resonance using rapid field ramps to the other side of the resonance. Fermion pairing, and condensation of these pairs was observed near the resonance, offering evidence for superfluid behavior in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Thesis Supervisor: Wolfgang Ketterle Title: John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics To all from whom I have learned |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/34384/70136631-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/Theses/Stan_Thesis.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
