Sympathetic cooling of bosonic and fermionic Lithium gases towards quantum degeneracy
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Sympathetic cooling of two atomic isotopes is experimentally investigated. Using forced evaporation of a bosonic 7 Li gas in a magnetic trap, a sample of 3 10 5 6 Li fermions has been sympathetically cooled to 9(3) µK, corresponding to 2.2(0.8) times the Fermi temperature. The measured rate constant for 2-body inelastic collisions of 7 Li |2, 2 state at low magnetic field is 1.0
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