Sub-Doppler laser cooling of fermionic 40K atoms in three-dimensional gray optical molasses

Abstract

We demonstrate sub-Doppler cooling of 40K on the D_1 atomic transition. Using a gray molasses scheme, we efficiently cool a compressed cloud of 6.5x10^8 atoms from ~ 4\mK to 20uK in 8 ms. After transfer in a quadrupole magnetic trap, we measure a phase space density of ~10^-5. This technique offers a promising route for fast evaporation of fermionic 40K.

6 pages; 7 figures; submitted to EPL

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• Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
• Quantum degenerate two-species Fermi-Fermi mixture coexisting with a Bose-Einstein condensate
• Induced P-wave Superfluidity in Asymmetric Fermi Gases

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