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Main Authors: Bühler, Tabea, Zwettler, Timo, Bolognini, Gaia, Fabre, Aurélien, Helson, Victor, Del Pace, Giulia, Brantut, Jean-Philippe
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05694
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author Bühler, Tabea
Zwettler, Timo
Bolognini, Gaia
Fabre, Aurélien
Helson, Victor
Del Pace, Giulia
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
author_facet Bühler, Tabea
Zwettler, Timo
Bolognini, Gaia
Fabre, Aurélien
Helson, Victor
Del Pace, Giulia
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
contents We present the production of quantum degenerate, superfluid gases of $^6$Li through direct evaporative cooling in a cavity-enhanced optical dipole trap. The entire evaporative cooling process is performed in a trap created by the TEM$_{00}$ mode of a Fabry-Pérot cavity, simultaneously driven on several successive longitudinal modes. This leads to near-complete cancellation of the inherent lattice structure along the axial direction of the cavity, as evidenced by the observation of long-lived dipole oscillations of the atomic cloud. We demonstrate the production of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates upon adiabatic conversion of a unitary Fermi gas evaporatively cooled in this trap. The lifetime and heating in the cavity trap are similar to those in a running wave dipole trap. Our system enables the optical production of ultracold samples using a total trap-laser power below $1$ W, leveraging the benefits of optical resonators as dipole traps in quantum gas research while maintaining a simple resonator design and minimizing additional experimental complexity.
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spellingShingle Direct production of fermionic superfluids in a cavity-enhanced optical dipole trap
Bühler, Tabea
Zwettler, Timo
Bolognini, Gaia
Fabre, Aurélien
Helson, Victor
Del Pace, Giulia
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
Quantum Gases
We present the production of quantum degenerate, superfluid gases of $^6$Li through direct evaporative cooling in a cavity-enhanced optical dipole trap. The entire evaporative cooling process is performed in a trap created by the TEM$_{00}$ mode of a Fabry-Pérot cavity, simultaneously driven on several successive longitudinal modes. This leads to near-complete cancellation of the inherent lattice structure along the axial direction of the cavity, as evidenced by the observation of long-lived dipole oscillations of the atomic cloud. We demonstrate the production of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates upon adiabatic conversion of a unitary Fermi gas evaporatively cooled in this trap. The lifetime and heating in the cavity trap are similar to those in a running wave dipole trap. Our system enables the optical production of ultracold samples using a total trap-laser power below $1$ W, leveraging the benefits of optical resonators as dipole traps in quantum gas research while maintaining a simple resonator design and minimizing additional experimental complexity.
title Direct production of fermionic superfluids in a cavity-enhanced optical dipole trap
topic Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05694