Dissipative dynamics of a Fermi gas induced by near-resonant light

Dissipation can produce unusual non-equilibrium states and offer engineered control over system dynamics. It can serve as a nontrivial probe into nonequilibrium dynamics, produce many-body dark states, and provide a host of other tools for quantum simulation and computation. We study optically-driven dissipative dynamics of a homogenous spin-½ Fermi gas in the BEC-BCS crossover. This loss mechanism is widely controllable, as we can tune our external optical field in a wide range of intensities and frequencies around and away from photoassociation resonances and the D2 transition of ⁶Li.