Squeezing out the entropy of fermions in optical lattices

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6916-6920

  Ho, Tin Lun ^a   Zhou, Qi ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy reduction; Optical lattice emulator; Quantum gases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENTROPY; FERMION; GAS; HEATING; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 66449123615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809862105     Document Type: Article

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