Itinerant ferromagnetism in a fermi gas of ultracold atoms

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5947, 2009, Pages 1521-1524

  Jo, Gyu Boong ^a   Lee, Ye Ryoung ^a   Choi, Jae Hoon ^a   Christensen, Caleb A ^a   Kim, Tony H ^a   Thywissen, Joseph H ^b   Pritchard, David E ^a   Ketterle, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM;

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE MOTION; PHASE TRANSITION; STATISTICAL CONCEPT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; COLD; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; FERMION; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUTRON; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70349349143     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177112     Document Type: Article

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