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Realization of a<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>SU</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo><mml:mo>×</mml:mo><mml:mi>SU</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:math>System of Fermions in a Cold Atomic Gas

Realization of a<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>SU</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo><mml:mo>×</mml:mo><mml:mi>SU</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:math>System of Fermions in a Cold Atomic Gas

We report the realization of a novel degenerate Fermi mixture with an SU(2)*SU(6) symmetry in a cold atomic gas. We successfully cool the mixture of the two fermionic isotopes of ytterbium 171Yb with the nuclear spin I=1/2 and 173Yb with I=5/2 below the Fermi temperature T_ F as 0.46T_F for …