Observing the drop of resistance in the flow of a superfluid Fermi gas

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7426, 2012, Pages 736-739

  Stadler, David ^a   Krinner, Sebastian ^a   Meineke, Jakob ^a   Brantut, Jean Philippe ^a   Esslinger, Tilman ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIZATION; HELIUM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; FERMION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; GAS FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84870288916     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11613     Document Type: Article

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