Onset of Fermi degeneracy in a trapped atomic gas

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5434, 1999, Pages 1703-1706

  DeMarco, B ^a   Jin, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOLING; EVAPORATION; GAS ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033543586     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1703     Document Type: Article

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47. Supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the NSF, and the Office of Naval Research. We thank C. Wieman, E. Cornell, and the other members of the JILA BEC group for useful discussions.