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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Observation of a two-dimensional fermi gas of atoms
Kirill Martiyanov1, Vasiliy Makhalov, Andrey Turlapov
1Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ulyanova 46, Nizhniy Novgorod, 603000, Russia.
Abstract:
We have prepared a degenerate gas of fermionic atoms which move in two dimensions while the motion in the third dimension is "frozen" by tight confinement and low temperature. In situ imaging provides direct measurement of the density profile and temperature. The gas is confined in a defect-free optical potential, and the interactions are widely tunable by means of a Fano-Feshbach resonance. This system can be a starting point for exploration of 2D Fermi physics and critical phenomena in a pure, controllable environment.
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