Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Strecker, Kevin E ^a   Partridge, Guthrie B ^a   Hulet, Randall G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMI LEVEL; KINETIC ENERGY; RATE CONSTANTS;

ATOMIC FERMI GAS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0141904474     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.080406     Document Type: Article

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