Observation of a Strongly-Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms

K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm +2

We report on the observation of a highly-degenerate, strongly-interacting Fermi gas of atoms. Fermionic ${}^6$Li atoms in an optical trap are evaporatively cooled to degeneracy using…