Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6966, 2003, Pages 537-540

  Greiner, Markus ^a   Regal, Cindy A ^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

CONDENSATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

FERMI GASES; FERMIONIC ATOMS;

FERMIONS;

METAL;

CONDENSATE; GAS; SUPERFLUID;

ARTICLE; ATOM; COLD; CONDUCTANCE; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUID; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE;

EID: 0346243610     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02199     Document Type: Article

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