Collapse of a degenerate fermi gas

Science

Volumn 297, Issue 5590, 2002, Pages 2240-2243

  Modugno, Giovanni ^a   Roati, Giacomo ^a   Riboli, Francesco ^a   Ferlaino, Francesca ^a   Brecha, Robert J ^a   Inguscio, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS; STABILITY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

INTERSPECIES ATTRACTION;

FERMIONS;

POTASSIUM 40; RUBIDIUM;

CHEMISTRY; GAS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ENERGY; FERMI GAS; GAS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037183953     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077386     Document Type: Article

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28. We acknowledge stimulating discussions with R. Roth, G. Shlyapnikov, and L. Viverit. Supported by Ministero dell'Instruzione, dell'Università e Ricerca, by the European Community under contract HPRICT1999-00111, and by INFM, Progetto diRicerca Avanzata "Photonmatter." G.R. is also at Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento; F.F. and M.I. are also at Dipartimento di Fisica, Università diFirenze; and R.B. is also at Department of Physics, University of Dayton, OH.