Optical detection of a BCS phase transition in a trapped gas of fermionic atoms

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26 February 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9902350

Abstract

Light scattering from a spin-polarized degenerate Fermi gas of trapped ultracold Li-6 atoms is studied. We find that the scattered light contains information which directly reflects the quantum pair correlation due to the formation of atomic Cooper pairs resulting from a BCS phase transition to a superfluid state. Evidence for pairing can be observed in both the space and time domains.

Keywords

BCS PHASE TRANSITION
LIGHT SCATTERING
SPIN POLARIZED
SCATTERED
TRAPPED
COOPER

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Version 1, 1999-02-26, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review A, 60 (1), 504.

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