Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Gehm, M E ^a   Hemmer, S L ^a   Granade, S R ^a   O'Hara, K M ^a   Thomas, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES; FERMIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LITHIUM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; STABILITY;

FERMI GAS; FERMI PRESSURE; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION; MECHANICAL STABILITY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0141461606     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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