Manipulation
of BEC and degenerate Fermi gases with laser light
M. Inguscio, LENS, Unibersity of
Ultracold bosonic (87Rb) and fermionic
(40K) atomic gases are produced by means of laser, evaporative and sympathetic
cooling. Experiments are performed by combining the quantum degenerate gases
with optical potentials created by light waves. The observed phenomenology
includes the role of collisions in the transport properties through an optical
lattice, the instability in the dynamic of a BEC and the interferometry
with trapped particles.