Quantum-Degenerate Mixture of Fermionic Lithium and Bosonic Rubidium Gases
Quantum-Degenerate Mixture of Fermionic Lithium and Bosonic Rubidium Gases
We report on the observation of sympathetic cooling of a cloud of fermionic 6Li atoms which are thermally coupled to evaporatively cooled bosonic 87Rb. Using this technique we obtain a mixture of quantum-degenerate gases, where the Rb cloud is colder than the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation and the Li …