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A: Fachverband Atomphysik

A 26: Posters: BECs, ultracold gases and plasmas

A 26.4: Poster

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 16:30–18:30, Poster C3

An apparatus for ultracold Fermi gases using sodium and lithium — •Jens Appmeier, Marc Repp, Stefan Weis, Anton Piccardo-Selg, Jan Krieger, Elisabeth Brama, Peter Krüger, and Markus K. Oberthaler — Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Heidelberg

We report on the setup of an apparatus for cooling fermionic ⁶Li atoms to quantum degeneracy. As a refrigerant for the fermions, ²³Na is used and standard cooling schemes are applied. By tuning the interatomic interactions of ⁶Li via Feshbach resonances it is possible to study the BEC-BCS crossover. We intend to study this regime in lower dimensions by making use of optical lattices. The current progress of the experimental setup will be reported.