Ultracold heteronuclear fermi-fermi molecules
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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
A-C Voigt1, M Taglieber, L Costa
1Department für Physik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstrasse 4, 80799 Munich, Germany. arne.voigt@mpq.mpg.de
Abstract:
We report on the first creation of ultracold bosonic heteronuclear molecules of two fermionic species, 6Li and 40K, by a magnetic field sweep across an interspecies s-wave Feshbach resonance. This allows us to associate up to 4x10(4) molecules with high efficiencies of up to 50%. Using direct imaging of the molecules, we measure increased lifetimes of the molecules close to resonance of more than 100 ms in the molecule-atom mixture stored in a harmonic trap.
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