Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 404031-404034

  Regal, C A ^b   Greiner, M ^b   Jin, D S ^a  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULE DISSOCIATION; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BINDING ENERGY; CONDENSATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAS CONDENSATES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FERMIONS;

EID: 1442331448     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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