Selected Papers on Fermi Gases : Experiment

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Groundbreaking firsts

Onset of Fermi Degeneracy in a Trapped Atomic Gas

B. DeMarco and D. S. Jin

Science 285, 1703 (1999)

First trapping of potassium-40.

Ultrastable CO2 Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions

K. M. O'Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, T. A. Savard, S. Bali, C. Freed, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4204 (1999), physics/0003049

First trapping of litium-6.

Observation of Fermi Pressure in a Gas of Trapped Atoms

A. G. Truscott, K. E. Strecker, W. I. McAlexander, G. B. Partridge, R. G. Hulet

Science 291, 2570 (2001)

First report of degenerate gas of lithium-6.

Degenerate Fermi Gases of Ytterbium

Takeshi Fukuhara, Yosuke Takasu, Mitsutaka Kumakura, Yoshiro Takahashi

cond-mat/0607228

First report of degenerate Fermi gas beyond alkali atoms. As a rare earth atom, Yb has 2 stable fermionic isotopes with large natural abundances. This is a way to study gases with more than 2 species of fermions. The now-standard technique to obtain infinite scattering length will not work, but alternative methods might.

Difermion molecules and their BEC

Creation of ultracold molecules from a Fermi gas of atoms

Cindy A. Regal, Christopher Ticknor, John L. Bohn, and Deborah S. Jin

Nature 424, 47 (2003), cond-mat/0305028

Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas

Kevin E. Strecker, Guthrie B. Partridge, and Randall G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 080406 (2003)

Production of Long-Lived Ultracold Li2 Molecules from a Fermi Gas

J. Cubizolles, T. Bourdel, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 240401 (2003)

Pure Gas of Optically Trapped Molecules Created from Fermionic Atoms

S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 240402 (2003)

Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules

M. W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, S. M. F. Raupach, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 250401 (2003)

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules

S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, S. Riedl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Science 302, 2101 (2003)

Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas

Markus Greiner, Cindy A. Regal, and Deborah S. Jin

Nature 426, 537 (2003), cond-mat/0311172

Fermi Gas in the Unitary Limit

Observation of a Strongly Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms

K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, J. E. Thomas

Science 298, 2179 (2002), cond-mat/0212463

Decay of an Ultracold Fermionic Lithium Gas near a Feshbach Resonance

K. Dieckmann, C. A. Stan, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, C. H. Schunck, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203201 (2002)

Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms

M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, K. M. O'Hara, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 68, 011401 (2003), cond-mat/0212499

Lithium-6 near a Feshbach resonance.

Measurement of the Interaction Energy near a Feshbach Resonance in a 6Li Fermi Gas

T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, L. Khaykovich, K.M.F. Magalhaes, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 020402 (2003), cond-mat/0303079

Lithium-6 near a Feshbach resonance.

Lifetime of Molecule-Atom Mixtures near a Feshbach Resonance in 40K

C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083201 (2004)

Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs

C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)

Crossover from a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Degenerate Fermi Gas

M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 120401 (2004)

Condensation of Pairs of Fermionic Atoms near a Feshbach Resonance

M. W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, S. M. F. Raupach, A. J. Kerman, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 120403 (2004)

Evidence for Superfluidity in a Resonantly Interacting Fermi Gas

J. Kinast, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150402 (2004)

Observation of the Pairing Gap in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

C. Chin, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Science 305, 1128 (2004)

Collective Excitiations of a Degenerate Gas at the BEC-BCS Crossover

M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 203201 (2004), cond-mat/0412712

Also see their note reinterpreting their data cond-mat/0611285

Heat Capacity of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, J. E. Thomas, Qijin Chen, Jelena Stajic, and K. Levin

Science 307, 1296 (2005), cond-mat/0502087

Evidence for Tc/TF approx 0.3 in the unitary regime.

Molecular Probe of Pairing in the BEC-BCS Crossover

G. B. Partridge, K. E. Strecker, R. I. Kamar, M. W. Jack, R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 020404 (2005), cond-mat/0505353

Molcecular spectroscopy probe of lithium-6 in the unitary regime.

Vortices and superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

M. W. Zwierlein, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, A. Schirotzek, C. H. Schunck, and W. Ketterle

Nature 435, 1047 (2005), cond-mat/0505635

Smoking gun for superfluidity in unitary Fermi gas in an atomic trap.

Superfluid Expansion of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

C.H. Schunck, M.W. Zwierlein, A. Schirotzek, W. Ketterle

cond-mat/0607298

The potential energy of a 40K Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

J. T. Stewart, J. P. Gaebler, C. A. Regal, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220406 (2006), cond-mat/0607776

beta = -0.54^{+0.05}_{-0.12} in agreement with results from lithium-6 and Monte Carlo calculations.

Precision Measurements of Collective Oscillations in the BEC-BCS crossover

A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, C. Kohstall, M. Wright, R. Geursen, M. Bartenstein, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm

cond-mat/0609390

Measures radial compression mode in lithium-6 at a Feshbach resonance. Agrees with QMC calculations; rules out mean field BCS theory.

Measurement of the Entropy and Critical Temperature of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

L. Luo, B. Clancy, J. Joseph, J. Kinast, J. E. Thomas

cond-mat/0611566

Sound propagation in a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance

J. Joseph, B. Clancy, L. Luo, J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, J. E. Thomas

cond-mat/0612567

Expansion of an ultra-cold lithium gas in the BEC-BCS crossover

L. Tarruell, M. Teichmann, J. Mckeever, T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, L. Khaykovich, J. Zhang, N. Navon, F. Chevy, and C. Salomon

cond-mat/0701181

To be published in the Proceedings of the 2006 Enrico Fermi summer school on Fermi gases

Observation of a quenched moment of inertia in a rotating strongly interacting Fermi gas

Bason Clancy, Le Luo, John E. Thomas

arXiv:0705.2782

Critical velocity for superfluid flow across the BEC-BCS crossover

D. E. Miller, J. K. Chin, C. A. Stan, Y. Liu, W. Setiawan, C. Sanner and W. Ketterle

arXiv:0707.2354

Is a gas of strongly interacting atomic fermions a nearly perfect fluid?

A. Turlapov, J. Kinast, B. Clancy, Le Luo, J. Joseph, J. E. Thomas

Journal of Low Temperature Physics 150, 567 (2008), arXiv:0707.2574

Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover

M. J. Wright, S. Riedl, A. Altmeyer, C. Kohstall, E. R. Sanchez Guajardo, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm

arXiv:0707.3593

Determination of the Fermion Pair Size in a Resonantly Interacting Superfluid

Christian H. Schunck, Yong-il Shin, Andre Schirotzek, and Wolfgang Ketterle

arXiv:0802.0341

Pairs are approx 1.4(2) /kF, smaller than the interparticle spacing.

Polarized Fermi Gas

Fermionic Superfluidity with Imbalanced Spin Populations and the Quantum Phase Transition to the Normal State

M. W. Zwierlein, A. Schirotzek, C. H. Schunck, and W. Ketterle

Science 311, 492 (27 Jan 2006), cond-mat/0511197

Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas

Guthrie B. Partridge, Wenhui Li, Ramsey I. Kamar, Yean-an Liao, Randall G. Hulet

Science 311, 503 (27 Jan 2006), cond-mat/0511752

Comment on "Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas" by G.B. Partridge, W. Li, R. I. Kamar, Y. Liao, R. G. Hulet, Science 311, 503 (2006)

Martin W. Zwierlein and Wolfgang Ketterle

cond-mat/0603489

Response to Comment on "Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas"

Guthrie B. Partridge, Wenhui Li, Ramsey I. Kamar, Yean-an Liao, Randall G. Hulet

cond-mat/0605581

Direct Observation of the Superfluid Phase Transition in Ultracold Fermi Gases

Martin W. Zwierlein, Christian H. Schunck, Andre Schirotzek, Wolfgang Ketterle

cond-mat/0605258

Observation of Phase Separation in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced Fermi Gas

Y. Shin, M. W. Zwierlein, C. H. Schunck, A. Schirotzek, W. Ketterle

cond-mat/0606432

Deformation of a Trapped Fermi Gas with Unequal Spin Populations

G. B. Partridge, Wenhui Li, Y. A. Liao, R. G. Hulet, M. Haque and H. T. C. Stoof

cond-mat/0608455

Pairing of Strongly Interacting Fermions without Superfluidity

C. H. Schunck, Y. Shin, A. Schirotzek, M. W. Zwierlein, W. Ketterle

cond-mat/0702066

Pairing Beyond S-wave

Tuning p-Wave Interactions in an Ultracold Fermi Gas of Atoms

C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053201 (2003), cond-mat/0209071

Multiplet structure of Feshbach resonances in nonzero partial waves

C. Ticknor, C. A. Regal, D. S. Jin, and J. L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 042712 (2004), physics/0310121

P-wave Feshbach resonances of ultracold 6Li

J. Zhang, E.G.M Van Kempen, T. Bourdel, L. Khaykovich, J. Cubizolles, F. Chevy, M. Teichmann, L. Tarruell, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. A 70, 030702(R) (2004), quant-ph/0406085

Feshbach resonances in fermionic 6Li

C. H. Schunck, M. W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, S. M. F. Raupach, W. Ketterle, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 71, 045601 (2005), cond-mat/0407373

p-Wave Interactions in Low-Dimensional Fermi gases

K. Günter, T. Stöferle, H. Moritz, M. Köhl, and T. Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230401 (2005), cond-mat/0507632

In an optical lattice: 1D, 2D and 3D.

Theses

Experimental realization of BCS-BEC crossover physics with a Fermi gas of atoms

C. Regal and D.S. Jin

cond-mat/0601054

Part of this thesis will appear in Vol. 43 of "Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics"


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