Mid-Term Report Summary - 3FLEX (Three-Component Fermi Gas Lattice Experiment)
In a separate effort, a double well potential was realized with exquisite control over all degrees of freedom of the atoms trapped in it.
Experience gained from these experiments will be essential for the second part of the project, during which a periodic confinement in the two-dimensional plane will be used to introduce additional degrees of freedom that will allow to introduce a third spin state, thereby creating a Fermi gas with properties that resemble qualitatively those of very dense quark matter. It is the vision of this project to contribute in this way to a better understanding of the phase diagram of QCD, which describes the properties of quark matter.