Takeshi Fukuhara

Degenerate Fermi gases of ytterbium.

Evaporative cooling was performed to cool fermionic 173Yb atoms in a crossed optical dipole trap. The large elastic collision rate leads to efficient evaporation and we have successfully cooled the atoms to 0.37+/-0.06 of the Fermi temperature, that is to say, to a quantum degenerate regime. In this regime, a plunge of evaporation efficiency was observed as a result of Fermi degeneracy.

Bose-Einstein condensation of an ytterbium isotope

We report the observation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a bosonic isotope of ytterbium

All-Optical Formation of Quantum Degenerate Mixtures

(^{170}\mathrm{Yb})

Mott insulator of ultracold alkaline-earth-metal-like atoms

. More than

Quantum-degenerate gases of ytterbium atoms

{10}^{6}

Geometrically frustrated coarsening dynamics in spinor Bose-Fermi mixtures

atoms are trapped in a crossed optical dipole trap and cooled by evaporation. Condensates of approximately

ULTRACOLD YTTERBIUM ATOMS IN OPTICAL LATTICES

{10}^{4}

High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Ultracold Ytterbium Atoms

atoms have been obtained. From an expansion of the condensate, we have extracted the scattering length

Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gases of Ytterbium Atoms

{a}_{170}=3.6\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.9\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{nm}

Strongly interacting array of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice

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