BCS theory for trapped ultracold fermions

European Physical Journal D

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 433-439

  Brunn, G ^a   Castin, Y ^b   Dum, R ^a,b   Burnett, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUANTIZED ENERGY LEVELS; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SEMI-CLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRACOLD FERMIONS;

FERMIONS;

EID: 0033473107     PISSN: 14346060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100530050587     Document Type: Article

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