Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions: The role of the heat capacity of the coolant

Details Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions: The role of the heat capacity of the coolant Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions: The role of the heat capacity of the coolant

2003-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310671v2

Phys. Rev. A 69, 043611 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043611

The sympathetic cooling of an initially degenerate Fermi gas by either an ideal Bose gas below $T_c$ or an ideal Boltzmann gas is investigated. It is shown that the efficiency of cooling by a Bose gas below $T_c$ is by no means reduced when its heat capacity becomes much less than that of the Fermi gas, where efficiency is measured by the decrease in the temperature of the Fermi gas per number of particles evaporated from the coolant. This contradicts the intuitive idea that an efficient coolant must have a large heat capacity. In contrast, for a Boltzmann gas a minimal value of the ratio of the heat capacities is indeed necessary to achieve T=0 and all of the particles must be evaporated.

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