BEC of $^{41}$K in a Fermi sea of $^6$Li

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Abstract

We report on the production of a $^{41}$K Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) immersed in a degenerate two-component $^6$Li Fermi sea. After evaporation in an optical dipole trap, we obtain $1.2\times10^4$ $^{41}$K atoms with a 55\% BEC fraction and a Fermi sea with $T/T_F< 0.1$, consisting of $1.8\times 10^5$ $^6$Li atoms in each of the lowest two spin states. This opens the way to study the collective behavior of a mass-imbalanced mixture of two coupled superfluids. The double-degenerate Fermi-Bose mixture also enables the study of interacting bosonic impurities in a Fermi sea. Using loss spectroscopy, we observe the $335.8\,\text{G}$ Feshbach resonance, which is comparable to the one between $^{6}$Li and the fermionic $^{40}$K isotope exploited in our previous studies on the quantum many-body dynamics of fermionic impurities in a Fermi sea \footnote{Cetina et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{115}, 13502 (2015)}. Investigating the interacting bosonic impurities enables the direct comparison of the role of quantum statistics for fermionic and bosonic impurities.

*This work is supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF within the collaborative research grant FoQuS.

Authors

  • Rianne S. Lous

    • IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck
  • Isabella Fritsche

    • IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck
  • Bo Huang

    • IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck
  • Michael Jag

    • IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck
  • Marko Cetina

    • IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences and Inst. for Exp. Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck
  • Jook T.M. Walraven

    • Van der Waals- Zeeman Inst., Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Amsterdam and IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Rudolf Grimm

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