Formation Time of a Fermion Pair Condensate
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The formation time of a condensate of fermionic atom pairs close to a Feshbach resonance was studied. This was done using a phase-shift method in which the delayed response of the many-body system to a modulation of the interaction strength was recorded. The observable was the fraction of condensed molecules in the cloud after a rapid magnetic field ramp across the Feshbach resonance. The measured response time was slow compared to the rapid ramp, which provides final proof that the molecular condensates reflect the presence of fermion pair condensates before the ramp.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0412675,
title = {Formation Time of a Fermion Pair Condensate},
author = {M. W. Zwierlein and C. H. Schunck and C. A. Stan and S. M. F. Raupach and W. Ketterle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0412675},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures