Reaching Fermi Degeneracy in Two-Species Optical Dipole Traps

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Onofrio, Roberto ^a,b,c   Presilla, Carlo ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CONDENSATION; FERMIONS; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

FERMI DEGENERACY; OPTICAL DIPOLE TRAPS;

FERMI LEVEL;

EID: 0037009614     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.100401     Document Type: Article

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