Optical traps provide tight confinement and very long storage times for atomic gases. Using a single focused
beam from a CO2 laser, we confine a mixture of spin-up and spin-down fermionic 6Li atoms, achieving storage
times of ten minutes, and evaporative cooling to quantum degeneracy in seconds. A bias magnetic field tunes
the gas to a collisional (Feshbach) resonance, producing extremely strong spin-pairing. This system now tests
current many-body predictions for high-temperature superconductors, universal interactions in neutron stars,
and hydrodynamic flow of quark-gluon plasmas, a state of matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.
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