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Understanding the superfluid phase diagram in trapped Fermi gases

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-09-13 v1 Quantum Gases Superconductivity

Abstract

Trapped ultracold Fermi gases provide a system that can be tuned between the BCS and BEC regimes by means of a magnetic-field Feshbach resonance. Condensation of fermionic atom pairs in a 40^{40}K gas was demonstrated experimentally by a sweep technique that pairwise projects fermionic atoms onto molecules. In this paper we examine previous data obtained with this technique that probed the phase boundary in the temperature-magnetic field plane. Comparison of the 40^{40}K data to a theoretically computed phase diagram demonstrates good agreement between the two.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512596,
  title  = {Understanding the superfluid phase diagram in trapped Fermi gases},
  author = {Qijin Chen and C. A. Regal and M. Greiner and D. S. Jin and K. Levin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512596},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRA Rapid