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Poster Session III

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Thursday June 19 Session S00 Oregon Convention Center:, Exhibit Hall E
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Apparatus for a degenerate mixture of Er and Li atoms

Poster 88
Presenter: William J Solorio Hernandez (MIT, Department of Physics)
Authors: Rubaiya Emran (MIT, Department of Physics), Jasmine Kalia (MIT, Department of Physics), Jared Rivera (MIT, Department of Physics), Richard Fletcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

We present a new apparatus capable of producing a degenerate mixture of erbium and lithium atoms. The species are generated from a dual-species oven, where the co-propagating atomic beams are then slowed and loaded into magneto-optical traps. The species are then transferred into an optical dipole trap for transport to a nano-textured glass cell. Once in the cell, the species are loaded into a crossed optical dipole trap for evaporation to degeneracy. A high-resolution microscope objective with an NA of 0.6 is used to image the gas. New and exciting physics can be studied using this alkali-lanthanide mixture, including long-range interactions via phonon exchange, mixed dimensional systems, collective spin physics, and few-body phenomena.

Funding acknowledgement

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (Center for Ultracold Atoms PHY-2317134 and grant no. PHY-2207367), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (FA9550-22-1-0066), and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (2023-76156). JR is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (grant no. 1745302).

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