A new apparatus for a degenerate alkali-lanthanide mixture
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Abstract
We present a new platform for the creation of a degenerate mixture of erbium and lithium atoms. A dual-species oven generates co-propagating atomic beams. The species are magneto-optically trapped in an all-titanium chamber and optically transported to a nano-textured glass cell. The gas is imaged via a microscope objective (NA = 0.6). This alkali-lanthanide mixture offers exciting new possibilities, including long-range interactions via phonon exchange, mixed dimensional systems, collective spin physics, and few-body phenomena.
*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (Center for Ultracold Atoms PHY-2317134 and grant no. PHY-2207367), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (FA9550-22-1-0066), and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. JK and JR are supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (grant no. 1745302).
Presenters
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Jasmine Kalia
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology