Free fermion antibunching in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas released from an optical lattice

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7120, 2006, Pages 733-736

  Rom, T ^a   Best, Th ^a   Van Oosten, D ^a   Schneider, U ^a   Folling S ^a   Paredes, B ^a   Bloch, I ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; LATTICE DYNAMICS; NOISE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BOSON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; FERMION; GAS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33845604945     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05319     Document Type: Article

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