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Crossover from a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 92, Issue 12, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.120401

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We demonstrate a reversible conversion of a (6)Li(2) molecular Bose-Einstein condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of atoms by adiabatically crossing a Feshbach resonance. By optical in situ imaging, we observe a smooth change of the cloud size in the crossover regime. On the Feshbach resonance, the ensemble is strongly interacting and the measured cloud size is 75(7)% of the one of a noninteracting zero-temperature Fermi gas. The high condensate fraction of more than 90% and the adiabatic crossover suggest our Fermi gas to be cold enough to form a superfluid.

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