Abstract:We report on the observation of sympathetic cooling of a cloud of fermionic 6 Li atoms which are thermally coupled to evaporatively cooled bosonic 87 Rb. Using this technique we obtain a mixture of quantum-degenerate gases, where the Rb cloud is colder than the critical temperature for BoseEinstein condensation and the Li cloud colder than the Fermi temperature. From measurements of the thermalization velocity we estimate the interspecies s-wave triplet scattering length |as| = 20 +9 −6 aB. We found that the p… Show more
“…The 40 K-87 Rb inter-species scattering cross section is relatively large [16] and we successfully cooled 40 K into quantum degeneracy using a 29 s long MW-evaporation ramp for rubidium. However, sympathetic cooling of 6 Li by 87 Rb is more challenging because thermalization is considerably slower due to the small 6 Li-87 Rb inter-species scattering cross section [11], which is roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than the 40 K-87 Rb cross section (in the low-temperature limit). In addition, the larger mass difference results in both a lower energy transfer per elastic collision, which is only partially compensated by a higher mean thermal relative velocity, and a reduced density overlap of the two clouds.…”
We report on the generation of a quantum degenerate Fermi-Fermi mixture of two different atomic species. The quantum degenerate mixture is realized employing sympathetic cooling of fermionic 6 Li and 40 K gases by an evaporatively cooled bosonic 87 Rb gas. We describe the combination of trapping and cooling methods that proved crucial to successfully cool the mixture. In particular, we study the last part of the cooling process and show that the efficiency of sympathetic cooling of the 6 Li gas by 87 Rb is increased by the presence of 40 K through catalytic cooling. Due to the differing physical properties of the two components, the quantum degenerate 6 Li-40 K Fermi-Fermi mixture is an excellent candidate for a stable, heteronuclear system allowing to study several so far unexplored types of quantum matter. [3], which allowed to study the crossover regime between a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and a BardeenCooper-Schrieffer (BCS) like gas of paired fermions [4]. Current research aims at simulating correlated manybody quantum systems with ultracold gases. A particularly intriguing goal is the realization of a fermionic quantum gas with two different atomic species, which is a well controllable system and is predicted to be stable [5]. Due to the mass difference, it offers a variety of analogies to other many-body systems, in particular to a spatially inhomogeneous superfluid phase predicted to occur in certain types of high temperature superconductors [6]. Further, a transition to a cristalline phase in the bulk gas [7] and the possibility to simulate baryonic phases of QCD [8] have been theoretically proposed. Moreover, the mixture bears the prospect to create heteronuclear ground state molecules [9], in this way realizing a quantum gas with a particularly large dipolar interaction [10]. Finally, a two-species mixture offers the additional possibility to tune interactions and to conveniently apply componentselective methods. The main result reported in this letter is the first production of such a quantum degenerate twospecies Fermi-Fermi mixture opening the door to aforementioned unexplored types of quantum matter. This goal was attained by achieving efficient sympathetic cooling of fermionic 6 Li and 40 K by an evaporatively cooled bosonic 87 Rb gas. Moreover, we have also realized the first triple quantum degenerate mixture (see fig.1), and therefore will be able to compare quantum properties of Fermi-Fermi and Bose-Fermi mixtures directly.The basic idea of our experimental strategy is to sym- pathetically cool the fermions by a large rubidium cloud. In this way, the atom numbers of the fermions are in principle not reduced by evaporation and the initial fermion clouds can be loaded with reduced experimental effort. However, the challenge is to combine the different constraints which the individual atomic species enforce on the set of trapping and cooling parameters. Especially, arXiv:0710.2779v1 [cond-mat.other]
“…The 40 K-87 Rb inter-species scattering cross section is relatively large [16] and we successfully cooled 40 K into quantum degeneracy using a 29 s long MW-evaporation ramp for rubidium. However, sympathetic cooling of 6 Li by 87 Rb is more challenging because thermalization is considerably slower due to the small 6 Li-87 Rb inter-species scattering cross section [11], which is roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than the 40 K-87 Rb cross section (in the low-temperature limit). In addition, the larger mass difference results in both a lower energy transfer per elastic collision, which is only partially compensated by a higher mean thermal relative velocity, and a reduced density overlap of the two clouds.…”
We report on the generation of a quantum degenerate Fermi-Fermi mixture of two different atomic species. The quantum degenerate mixture is realized employing sympathetic cooling of fermionic 6 Li and 40 K gases by an evaporatively cooled bosonic 87 Rb gas. We describe the combination of trapping and cooling methods that proved crucial to successfully cool the mixture. In particular, we study the last part of the cooling process and show that the efficiency of sympathetic cooling of the 6 Li gas by 87 Rb is increased by the presence of 40 K through catalytic cooling. Due to the differing physical properties of the two components, the quantum degenerate 6 Li-40 K Fermi-Fermi mixture is an excellent candidate for a stable, heteronuclear system allowing to study several so far unexplored types of quantum matter. [3], which allowed to study the crossover regime between a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and a BardeenCooper-Schrieffer (BCS) like gas of paired fermions [4]. Current research aims at simulating correlated manybody quantum systems with ultracold gases. A particularly intriguing goal is the realization of a fermionic quantum gas with two different atomic species, which is a well controllable system and is predicted to be stable [5]. Due to the mass difference, it offers a variety of analogies to other many-body systems, in particular to a spatially inhomogeneous superfluid phase predicted to occur in certain types of high temperature superconductors [6]. Further, a transition to a cristalline phase in the bulk gas [7] and the possibility to simulate baryonic phases of QCD [8] have been theoretically proposed. Moreover, the mixture bears the prospect to create heteronuclear ground state molecules [9], in this way realizing a quantum gas with a particularly large dipolar interaction [10]. Finally, a two-species mixture offers the additional possibility to tune interactions and to conveniently apply componentselective methods. The main result reported in this letter is the first production of such a quantum degenerate twospecies Fermi-Fermi mixture opening the door to aforementioned unexplored types of quantum matter. This goal was attained by achieving efficient sympathetic cooling of fermionic 6 Li and 40 K by an evaporatively cooled bosonic 87 Rb gas. Moreover, we have also realized the first triple quantum degenerate mixture (see fig.1), and therefore will be able to compare quantum properties of Fermi-Fermi and Bose-Fermi mixtures directly.The basic idea of our experimental strategy is to sym- pathetically cool the fermions by a large rubidium cloud. In this way, the atom numbers of the fermions are in principle not reduced by evaporation and the initial fermion clouds can be loaded with reduced experimental effort. However, the challenge is to combine the different constraints which the individual atomic species enforce on the set of trapping and cooling parameters. Especially, arXiv:0710.2779v1 [cond-mat.other]
“…Quantum degenerate mixtures [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] of atomic gases are currently the subject of intensive research, exhibiting rich physics inaccessible in single-species experiments. Phase separation of the constituent gases is a particularly dramatic example [2,[8][9][10].…”
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“…Changing the laser frequency can further enhance this capability to reverse the relative amplitude of interspecies lattice potential [35]. As in experiments only the interspecies s-wave triplet scattering length (∼ 20 a B ) between 87 Rb and 6 Li has been measured [33], the parameters in our model, U bf and J bf , cannot be determined. Whether Bose-Fermi density interaction are strong enough to induce DWs requires future experimental developments.…”
We study a mixture of spin-1 bosonic and spin-1/2 fermionic cold atoms, e.g., 87 Rb and 6 Li, confined in a triangular optical lattice. With fermions at 3/4 filling, Fermi surface nesting leads to spontaneous formation of various spin textures of bosons in the ground state, such as collinear, coplanar and even non-coplanar spin orders. The phase diagram is mapped out with varying boson tunneling and Bose-Fermi interactions. Most significantly, in one non-coplanar state the mixture is found to exhibit a spontaneous quantum Hall effect in fermions and crystalline superfluidity in bosons, both driven by interaction.
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