Prospects for p-wave paired Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer states of fermionic atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2324-2329

  You, L ^a   Marinescu, M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000368391     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.2324     Document Type: Article

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