Metastability and coherence of repulsive polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi mixture

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7400, 2012, Pages 615-618

  Kohstall, C ^a,b   Zaccanti, M ^a   Jag, M ^a,b   Trenkwalder, A ^a   Massignan, P ^c   Bruun, G M ^d   Schreck, F ^a   Grimm, R ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM 40;

BENCHMARKING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COHERENCE; COLD; ENERGY; FERMI GAS; GAS; METASTABILITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLARON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84865261927     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11065     Document Type: Article

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