Observation of bose-einstein condensation of molecules

By M. Zwierlein, C. Stan, C. Schunck, S. Raupach, Subhadeep Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, W. Ketterle. International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003

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We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules, created from a spin mixture of fermionic 6Li atoms. The condensate realizes the limit of tightly bound fermion pairs in the crossover between BCS and BEC superfluidity

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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1. M. Zwierlein
2. W. Ketterle
3. C. Chin
4. R. Grimm
5. P. Julienne
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• Making, probing and understanding ultracold Fermi gases (2008, methodology): “The condensate observed at MIT was distorted by an anharmonic trapping potential.”
• The BCS–BEC crossover: From ultra-cold Fermi gases to nuclear systems (2018, background): “(i) The initial production of long-lived composite bosons [236, 237, 238, 239]; (ii) The condensation of composite bosons [240, 241, 242]; (iii) The evidence of a condensate extending also to the BCS side of the crossover [243, 244] with the “projection” technique introduced in Ref.”
• Quantum turbulence in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (2015, background): “The former case has been achieved experimentally in ultracold lithium-6 [230, 231] whereas the latter in potassium gases [232].”
• BCS BEC crossover: From high temperature superconductors to ultracold superfluids (2004, background): “By late 2003 to early 2004, four groups (Bourdelet al., 2004; Greineret al., 2003; Jochimet al., 2003b; Zwierlein et al., 2003) had observed the “condensation of weakly bound molecules” (that is, on theas > 0 side of resonance), and shortly thereafter a number had also reported evidence for…”
• Quantum simulation of the Hubbard model with ultracold fermions in optical lattices (2018, neutral): “The first quantum simulation studies with ultracold fermionic atoms focused on the study of superfluidity in trapped two-component Fermi gases with strong interactions [18], for instance the BEC-BCS crossover [19,20,21,22,23,24,25] and various thermodynamic properties [26,27,28,29,30].”
• Strongly correlated quantum fluids: ultracold quantum gases, quantum chromodynamic plasmas and holographic duality (2012, methodology): “ate fields. The creation of a degenerate Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance was followed in 2003by the first measurements ofthe interaction energy [48,49]andthe creationofBosecondensed dimer molecules [50, 51, 52, 53]. In 2004, condensed fermionic atom pairs were observed using a fast magnetic field s”
• Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases (2007, methodology): “1) (Greiner, Regal and Jin, 2003; Jochim et al. 2003; Zwierlein et al., 2003; Bourdel et al., 2004; Partridge et al., 2005).”
• Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases (2008, methodology): “An exception, however, is the direct imaging of atoms in halo states as demonstrated for 6Li (Bartenstein et al., 2004b; Zwierlein et al., 2003).”