Formation dynamics of a fermion pair condensate

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Zwierlein, MW [1 ]
Schunck, CH
Stan, CA
Raupach, SMF
Ketterle, W
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[1] MIT, Dept Phys, MIT Harvard Ctr Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Elect Res Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.180401
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The dynamics of pair condensate formation in a strongly interacting Fermi gas close to a Feshbach resonance was studied. We employed a phase-shift method in which the delayed response of the many-body system to a modulation of the interaction strength was recorded. The observable was the fraction of condensed molecules in the cloud after a rapid magnetic field ramp across the Feshbach resonance. The measured response time was slow compared to the rapid ramp, which provides final proof that the molecular condensates reflect the presence of fermion pair condensates before the ramp.
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