Laser probing of atomic cooper pairs

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作者
Törmä, P
Zoller, P
机构
[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Theoret Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[2] Univ Helsinki, Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[3] Helsinki Univ Technol, Lab Computat Engn, FIN-02015 Espoo, Finland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.487
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We consider a gas of attractively interacting cold fermionic atoms which are manipulated by laser light. The laser induces a transition from an internal state with large negative scattering length to one with almost no interactions. The process can be viewed as a tunneling of atomic population between the superconducting and the normal states of the gas. It can be used to detect the BCS ground state and to measure the superconducting order parameter.
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