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Acoustic Attenuation Probe for Fermion Superfluidity in Ultracold-Atom Gases
2007
Physical Review Letters
Dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC's), currently used to cool fermionic atoms in atom traps, can also probe the superfluidity of these fermions. The damping rate of BEC-acoustic excitations (phonon modes), measured in the middle of the trap as a function of the phonon momentum, yields an unambiguous signature of BCS-like superfluidity, provides a measurement of the superfluid gap parameter and gives an estimate of the size of the Cooper-pairs in the BEC-BCS crossover regime. We also
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.98.110407
pmid:17501033
fatcat:jm3isnojnfbtnc3jrzbyyysjqu