[Historical report created from GSU BEC Homepage:]

"Stunning news from France: a stable BEC of ⁷Li, in the company of degenerate ⁶Li Fermi gas.

On 16 May, 2001 our group at ENS in Paris succeeded in the production of a stable condensate of ⁷Li in its lower hyperfine state |F, M_F> = |1, -1> (which has a positive scattering length). The condensate is produced by thermal contact with a Fermionic ⁶Li gas in the |F, M_F> = |1/2, -1/2> state. Both degenerate gases have currently a few 10⁴ atoms, and the temperature of the Fermi gas is 0.4 T_F. Figure above: Thermalised Bose and Fermi gases. The temperature is 1.1 µK = 0.7 T_c. The total number of bosons is 2.2 x 10⁴; the number of fermions 2.6 x 10⁴, with T/T_F = 0.4. The pictures are taken simultaneously after one experimental run.

Our group consists of:

• Florian Schreck
• Lev Khaykovich
• Christophe Salomon

Former group members include:

• Kristan Corwin (NIST, Boulder, Colorado)
• Julien Cubizolles
• Thomas Bourdel
• Gabriele Ferrari (LENS, Firenze)
• Marc-Oliver Mewes

For further information, see our webpage."