Hydrodynamic Expansion of a Strongly Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixture

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Abstract

We report on the expansion of an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of $^6$Li and $^{40}$K under conditions of strong interactions controlled via an interspecies Feshbach resonance. We study the expansion of the mixture after release from the trap and, in a narrow magnetic field range, we observe two phenomena related to hydrodynamic behavior. The common inversion of the aspect ratio is found to be accompanied by a collective effect where both species stick together and expand jointly despite of their widely different masses. Our work constitutes a major experimental step for a controlled investigation of the many-body physics of this novel strongly interacting quantum system.

Authors

  • Andreas Trenkwalder

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Innsbruck
  • Christoph Kohstall

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. Innsbruck
  • Matteo Zaccanti

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Innsbruck and LENS, Physics Dept., Univ. of Florence and INO-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • Devang Naik

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Innsbruck
  • Andrei Sidorov

    • Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
  • Florian Schreck

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Innsbruck
  • Rudolf Grimm

    • IQOQI, Austrian Acad. of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. Innsbruck