Figure 1

A condensate of Fermion pairs (red) is trapped in the waist of a focussed laser beam (pink). Two additional laser beams (green) rotate around the edges to stir the condensate. Current-carrying coils (blue) generate the magnetic field used for axial confinement and to tune the interaction strength by means of a "Feshbach resonance". After releasing the atomic cloud from the electromagnetic trap, the cloud expands ballistically and inverts its aspect ratio. Resonant absorption imaging yields a density profile of the atomic cloud containing vortices (image and text: Ketterle Group).

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