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2020
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Phelps, G., Hebert, A., Krahn, A., Dickerson, S., Ozturk, S. F., Ebadi, S., … Greiner, M. (2020). Sub-second production of a quantum degenerate gas.
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Phelps, Gregory, Anne Hebert, Aaron Krahn, Susannah Dickerson, S. Furkan Ozturk, Sepehr Ebadi, Lin Su, and Markus Greiner. “Sub-Second Production of a Quantum Degenerate Gas” (2020).
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Phelps, Gregory, et al. Sub-Second Production of a Quantum Degenerate Gas. 2020.
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@article{gregory2020a,
title = {Sub-second production of a quantum degenerate gas},
year = {2020},
author = {Phelps, Gregory and Hebert, Anne and Krahn, Aaron and Dickerson, Susannah and Ozturk, S. Furkan and Ebadi, Sepehr and Su, Lin and Greiner, Markus}
}
Realizing faster experimental cycle times is important for the future of quantum simulation. The cycle time determines how often the many-body wave-function can be sampled, defining the rate at which information is extracted from the quantum simulation. We demonstrate a system which can produce a Bose-Einstein condensate of $8 \times 10^4$ $^{168}\text{Er}$ atoms with approximately 85% condensate fraction in 800 ms and a degenerate Fermi gas of $^{167}\text{Er}$ in 4 seconds, which are unprecedented times compared to many existing quantum gas experiments. This is accomplished by several novel cooling techniques and a tunable dipole trap. The methods used here for accelerating the production of quantum degenerate gases should be applicable to a variety of atomic species and are promising for expanding the capabilities of quantum simulation.