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Tomographic RF Spectroscopy of a Trapped Fermi Gas at Unitarity

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-13 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present spatially resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy of a trapped Fermi gas with resonant interactions and observe a spectral gap at low temperatures. The spatial distribution of the spectral response of the trapped gas is obtained using in situ phase-contrast imaging and 3D image reconstruction. At the lowest temperature, the homogeneous rf spectrum shows an asymmetric excitation line shape with a peak at 0.48(4)ϵF\epsilon_F with respect to the free atomic line, where ϵF\epsilon_F is the local Fermi energy.

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@article{arxiv.0705.3858,
  title  = {Tomographic RF Spectroscopy of a Trapped Fermi Gas at Unitarity},
  author = {Y. Shin and C. H. Schunck and A. Schirotzek and W. Ketterle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3858},
  year   = {2009}
}