Dipolar evaporation of reactive molecules to below the Fermi temperature

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12277v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:02:59 GMT
• Title: Dipolar evaporation of reactive molecules to below the Fermi temperature
• Authors: Giacomo Valtolina, Kyle Matsuda, William G. Tobias, Jun-Ru Li, Luigi De Marco and Jun Ye
• Abstract summary: Inelastic losses in molecular collisions have greatly hampered the engineering of low-entropy molecular systems. Here, we use an external electric field along with optical lattice confinement to create a two-dimensional (2D) Fermi gas of spin-polarized potassium-rubidium (KRb) polar molecules. Direct thermalization among the molecules in the trap leads to efficient dipolar cooling, yielding a rapid increase in phase-space density.
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• Abstract: Molecules are the building blocks of matter and their control is key to the investigation of new quantum phases, where rich degrees of freedom can be used to encode information and strong interactions can be precisely tuned. Inelastic losses in molecular collisions, however, have greatly hampered the engineering of low-entropy molecular systems. So far, the only quantum degenerate gas of molecules has been created via association of two highly degenerate atomic gases. Here, we use an external electric field along with optical lattice confinement to create a two-dimensional (2D) Fermi gas of spin-polarized potassium-rubidium (KRb) polar molecules, where elastic, tunable dipolar interactions dominate over all inelastic processes. Direct thermalization among the molecules in the trap leads to efficient dipolar evaporative cooling, yielding a rapid increase in phase-space density. At the onset of quantum degeneracy, we observe the effects of Fermi statistics on the thermodynamics of the molecular gas. These results demonstrate a general strategy for achieving quantum degeneracy in dipolar molecular gases to explore strongly interacting many-body phases.

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