Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-10-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
18 pages, 11 figures; to be published in the Proceedings of the International school of physics "Enrico Ferm": Ultracold Fermi
Scientific paper
We give an overview of the experiments at the Laser Centre of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on ultracold gases of metastable helium-4 and helium-3 as well as mixtures of both isotopes. We describe our experimental setup and discuss our experiments on Bose-Einstein condensation of 4He* (more than 10 million atoms in a BEC) and sympathetic cooling of 3He* towards Fermi degeneracy (more than 1 million atoms below the Fermi temperature as well as realization of a degenerate boson-fermion mixture). We also present our results on Penning Ionization in ~1 mK clouds containing a single isotope (homonuclear losses) or a mixture of both isotopes (heteronuclear losses).
Jeltes Tom
McNamara John M.
Tychkov A. S.
Vassen Wim
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