Vortices and superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages 1047-1051

  Zwierlein, M W ^a   Abo Shaeer, J R ^a,b   Schirotzek, A ^a   Schunck, C H ^a   Ketterle, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FERMIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; RESONANCE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; VORTEX FLOW;

FERMI GAS; LOW DENSITY EFFECTS; SUPERFLUIDS; VORTEX LATTICES;

FERMI LIQUIDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BARDEEN COOPER SCHRIEFFER SUPERFLUID; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; DENSITY; FERMI GAS; FERMION; FESCBACH RESONANCE; GAS; GLUON; LIQUID; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUTRON; NEUTRON STAR; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICS; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; QUARK; SUPERCONDUCTOR; SUPERFLUIDITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 21344445530     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03858     Document Type: Article

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