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Compressibility of an Ultracold Fermi Gas with Repulsive Interactions

Quantum Gases 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

Fermi gases with repulsive interactions are characterized by measuring their compressibility as a function of interaction strength. The compressibility is obtained from in-trap density distributions monitored by phase contrast imaging. For interaction parameters k_F a > 0.25 fast decay of the gas prevents the observation of equilibrium profiles. For smaller interaction parameters, the results are adequately described by first-order perturbation theory. A novel phase contrast imaging method compensates for dispersive distortions of the images.

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@article{arxiv.1204.4229,
  title  = {Compressibility of an Ultracold Fermi Gas with Repulsive Interactions},
  author = {Ye-Ryoung Lee and Myoung-Sun Heo and Jae-Hoon Choi and Tout T. Wang and Caleb A. Christensen and Timur M. Rvachov and Wolfgang Ketterle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4229},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures