Probing the excitation spectrum of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

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

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SCATTERING CHANNELS; CROSSOVER REGIME; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; FERMI-GAS; ULTRACOLD GAS;

BINDING ENERGY; COLD EFFECTS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; FERMI LEVEL; FERMIONS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBES;

NATURAL GAS;

EID: 18144392320     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.070403     Document Type: Article

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