Observation of Anomalous Spin Segregation in a Trapped Fermi Gas

Abstract

We report the observation of spin segregation, i.e., separation of spin density profiles, in a trapped ultracold Fermi gas of ${}^6$Li with a magnetically tunable scattering length close to zero. The roles of the spin components are inverted when the sign of the scattering length is reversed. The observed density profiles are in qualitative agreement with the spin-wave theory applied previously to explain spin segregation in a Bose gas, but disagree in amplitude by two orders of magnitude. The observed atomic density profiles are far from equilibrium, yet they persist for $\simeq$ 5 seconds in a trap with an axial frequency of $\simeq$ 150 Hz. We attribute this long lifetime to Fermi statistics: The scattering amplitude is nonzero only for atoms in opposite states, and vanishes for atoms in the same state. By measuring the magnetic field at which spin segregation ceases, we precisely determine the zero crossing in the scattering length of ${}^6$Li as $527.5\pm 0.2$ G.

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