Production of a highly degenerate Fermi gas of metastable helium-3 atoms

Kieran F. Thomas, Zhuoxian Ou, Bryce M. Henson +3

We report on the achievement of quantum degeneracy in both components of a Bose-Fermi mixture of metastable helium atoms, ${}^4$He* and ${}^3$He*. Degeneracy is achieved via Doppler co…