Creation of ultracold molecules from a Fermi gas of atoms

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6944, 2003, Pages 47-50

  Regal, Cindy A ^a   Ticknor, Christopher ^a   Bohn, John L ^a   Jin, Deborah S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; FERMIONS; GROUND STATE; PHOTODISSOCIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FERMI GAS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

GAS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; ENERGY; GAS ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0038681024     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01738     Document Type: Article

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