Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea
Abstract
We report the observation of coexisting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and Fermi gas in a magnetic trap. With a very small fraction of thermal atoms, the 7Li condensate is quasipure and in thermal contact with a 6Li Fermi gas. The lowest common temperature is 0.28 μK~=0.2(1)TC = 0.2(1)TF where TC is the BEC critical temperature and TF the Fermi temperature. The 7Li condensate has a one-dimensional character.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 2001
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0107442
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..87h0403S
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 5 figures