Collapse of a degenerate Fermi gas

Year: 2002

Authors: Modugno G., Roati G., Riboli F., Ferlaino F., Brecha RJ., Inguscio M.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Florence, European Lab Nonlinear Spect, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Mat, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Abstract: A degenerate gas of identical fermions is brought to collapse by the interaction with a Bose-Einstein condensate. We used an atomic mixture of fermionic potassium-40 and bosonic rubidium-87, in which the strong interspecies attraction leads to an instability above a critical number of particles. The observed phenomenon suggests a direction for manipulating fermion-fermion interactions on the route to superfluidity.

Journal/Review: SCIENCE

Volume: 297 (5590)      Pages from: 2240  to: 2243

KeyWords: He-3
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077386

Citations: 311
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