Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas

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2003
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We have converted an ultracold Fermi gas of Li6 atoms into an ultracold gas of Li26 molecules by adiabatic passage through a Feshbach resonance. Approximately 1.5×105 molecules in the least-bound, v=38, vibrational level of the X1Σ+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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Strecker, Kevin E., Partridge, Guthrie B. and Hulet, Randall G.. "Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas." Physical Review Letters, 91, no. 8 (2003) American Physical Society: 80406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.080406.

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