Converting an atomic fermi gas into a long-lived molecular bose gas

We have converted a quantum degenerate Fermi gas of <sup>6</sup>Li atoms into an ultracold gas of <sup>6</sup>Li<sub>2</sub> molecules using a Feshbach resonance. Up to 1.5 times 10<sup>5</sup> molecules are produced with 50% efficiency, and optically confined for up to 1 s