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Production of a Fermi gas of atoms in an optical lattice

G. Modugno, F. Ferlaino, R. Heidemann, G. Roati, M. Inguscio

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0304242

Abstract

We prepare a degenerate Fermi gas of potassium atoms by sympathetic cooling with rubidium atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. In a tight lattice we observe a change of the density of states of the system, which is a signature of quasi two dimensional confinement. We also find that the dipolar oscillations of the Fermi gas along the tight lattice are almost completely suppressed.

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