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Two Transitions in the Damping of a Unitary Fermi Gas

2005/02/21 by J. Kinast, Kinast, J., A. Turlapov +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0502507

5 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2005/02/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/02/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We measure the temperature dependence of the radial breathing mode in an optically trapped, strongly-interacting Fermi gas of 6Li, just above the center of a broad Feshbach resonance. The frequency remains close to the unitary hydrodynamic value, while the damping rate reveals transitions at two well-separated temperatures, consistent with the existence of atom pairs above a superfluid transition.

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