Unitarity-limited elastic collision rate in a harmonically trapped Fermi gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRAPS; FERMI LEVEL; FERMI LIQUIDS; FERMIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; ELASTIC COLLISION RATE; FERMI GAS; FERMIONIC ATOMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0141684758     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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