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Phys. Rev. A 64, 051402 (2001) [4 pages]

Laser cooling of trapped Fermi gases far below the Fermi temperature

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Z. Idziaszek1,2, L. Santos1, and M. Lewenstein1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
2Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej, Polska Akademia Nauk, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

Rapid Communication Received 30 October 2000; published 10 October 2001

We study the collective Raman cooling of a polarized trapped Fermi gas in the festina lente regime, when the heating effects associated with photon reabsorptions are suppressed. We predict that by adjusting the spontaneous Raman emission rates and using appropriately designed anharmonic traps, temperatures of the order of 2.7% of the Fermi temperature can be achieved in 3D.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.051402
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.051402
PACS: 32.80.Pj, 03.75.Fi, 42.50.Vk

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