An Optical Trap for Collisional Studies on Cold Fermionic Potassium

G. Roati, W. Jastrzebski, A. Simoni +2

We report on trapping of fermionic 40K atoms in a red-detuned standing-wave optical trap, loaded from a magneto-optical trap. Typically, 10^6 atoms are loaded at a density of 10^12…