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All-optical pump-and-probe detection of dynamical correlations in a two-dimensional Fermi gas

Quantum Gases 2010-06-04 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We propose an all-optical scheme to probe the dynamical correlations of a strongly-interacting gas of ultracold atoms. The proposed technique is based on a pump-and-probe scheme: a coherent light pulse is initially converted into an atomic coherence and later retrieved after a variable storage time. The efficiency of the proposed method to measure the one-particle Green function of the gas is validated by numerical and analytical calculations of the expected signal for the two cases of a normal Fermi gas and a BCS superfluid state. Protocols to extract the superfluid gap and the full quasi-particle dispersions are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2826,
  title  = {All-optical pump-and-probe detection of dynamical correlations in a two-dimensional Fermi gas},
  author = {Tung-Lam Dao and Corinna Kollath and Iacopo Carusotto and Michael Koehl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2826},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. A