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Engineering spin waves in a high-spin ultracold Fermi gas

Quantum Gases 2013-09-17 v3

Abstract

We report on the detailed study of multi-component spin-waves in an s=3/2 Fermi gas where the high spin leads to novel tensorial degrees of freedom compared to s = 1/2 systems. The excitations of a spin-nematic state are investigated from the linear to the nonlinear regime, where the tensorial character is particularly pronounced. By tuning the initial state we engineer the tensorial spin-wave character, such that the magnitude and sign of the counterflow spin-currents are effectively controlled. A comparison of our data with numerical and analytical results shows excellent agreement.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4323,
  title  = {Engineering spin waves in a high-spin ultracold Fermi gas},
  author = {Jannes Heinze and Jasper Simon Krauser and Nick Fläschner and Klaus Sengstock and Christoph Becker and Ulrich Ebling and Andre Eckardt and Maciej Lewenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4323},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures

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