Conversion of an atomic Fermi gas to a long-lived molecular Bose gas

被引：472

作者：

Strecker, KE ^{[1
]}

Partridge, GB

Hulet, RG

机构：

[1] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77251 USA

[2] Rice Univ, Rice Quantum Inst, Houston, TX 77251 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2003年 / 91卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.080406

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We have converted an ultracold Fermi gas of Li-6 atoms into an ultracold gas of Li-6(2) molecules by adiabatic passage through a Feshbach resonance. Approximately 1.5x10(5) molecules in the least-bound, v=38, vibrational level of the X(1)Sigma(g)(+) singlet state are produced with an efficiency of 50%. The molecules remain confined in an optical trap for times of up to 1 s before we dissociate them by a reverse adiabatic sweep.

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