Evaporative cooling of unitary Fermi gas mixtures in optical traps

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Luo, L ^a   Clancy, B ^a   Joseph, J ^a   Kinast, J ^a   Turlapov, A ^a   Thomas, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; EVAPORATION; FERMI LEVEL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MIXTURES; RESONANCE; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

EVAPORATION EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; FERMI GAS; HYPERFINE STATES;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 33749238565     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/9/213     Document Type: Article

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