Crossover from a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Degenerate Fermi Gas
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- 23 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 92 (12) , 120401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.120401
Abstract
We demonstrate a reversible conversion of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of atoms by adiabatically crossing a Feshbach resonance. By optical in situ imaging, we observe a smooth change of the cloud size in the crossover regime. On the Feshbach resonance, the ensemble is strongly interacting and the measured cloud size is of the one of a noninteracting zero-temperature Fermi gas. The high condensate fraction of more than and the adiabatic crossover suggest our Fermi gas to be cold enough to form a superfluid.
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