Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Mar 18;106(11):115304. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.115304. Epub 2011 Mar 16.
We report on the expansion of an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of (6)Li and (40)K under conditions of strong interactions controlled via an interspecies Feshbach resonance. We study the expansion of the mixture after release from the trap and, in a narrow magnetic-field range, we observe two phenomena related to hydrodynamic behavior. The common inversion of the aspect ratio is found to be accompanied by a collective effect where both species stick together and expand jointly despite of their widely different masses. Our work constitutes a major experimental step for a controlled investigation of the many-body physics of this novel strongly interacting quantum system.
我们报道了在通过物种间费什巴赫共振控制的强相互作用条件下,(6)Li 和(40)K 的超冷费米-费米混合物的扩展。我们研究了混合物从陷阱中释放后的扩展,并且在磁场的较窄范围内,我们观察到与流体力学行为相关的两个现象。发现常见的纵横比反转伴随着一个集体效应,其中尽管两种物质的质量差异很大,但它们仍粘在一起并共同扩展。我们的工作是对这种新型强相互作用量子系统的多体物理进行受控研究的重要实验步骤。