DocumentCode
2672457
Title
Stability of a strongly-attractive, two-component Fermi gas
Author
Gehm, M.E. ; O´Hara, K.M. ; Hemmer, S.L. ; Thomas, J.E.
Author_Institution
Phys. Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
fYear
2003
fDate
6-6 June 2003
Abstract
Summary form only given. Using a simple model, we show that a strongly-attractive, two-component Fermi gas of atoms should be mechanically stable as a consequence of unitarity. We demonstrate this stability experimentally in a degenerate gas of /sup 6/Li atoms.
Keywords
fermion systems; hyperfine structure; laser cooling; lithium; radiation pressure; resonant states; /sup 6/Li atoms; Feshbach resonance; Li; degenerate gas; evaporative cooling; hyperfine states; laser trapping; quantum-mechanical unitary limits; strongly-attractive Fermi gas; two-component Fermi gas; Atom optics; Charge carrier processes; Cooling; Gas lasers; Laser stability; Magnetic fields; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Physics; Quantum mechanics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-749-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/QELS.2003.238273
Filename
1276433
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