Probing pair-correlated fermionic atoms through correlations in atom shot noise

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

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

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION IMAGING; ATOM SHOT NOISE; FEFHBACH RESONANCE; QUANTUM HALL STATE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DISSOCIATION; HALL EFFECT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

FERMIONS;

EID: 18044363091     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.110401     Document Type: Article

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