Radio-frequency spectroscopy of ultracold fermions

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作者
Gupta, S [1 ]
Hadzibabic, Z
Zwierlein, MW
Stan, CA
Dieckmann, K
Schunck, CH
van Kempen, EGM
Verhaar, BJ
Ketterle, W
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[1] MIT, Dept Phys, Harvard Ctr Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Phys, Elect Res Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[3] Eindhoven Univ Technol, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands
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10.1126/science.1085335
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Radio-frequency techniques were used to study ultracold fermions. We observed the absence of mean-field "clock" shifts, the dominant source of systematic error in current atomic clocks based on bosonic atoms. This absence is a direct consequence of fermionic antisymmetry. Resonance shifts proportional to interaction strengths were observed in a three-level system. However, in the strongly interacting regime, these shifts became very small, reflecting the quantum unitarity limit and many-body effects. This insight into an interacting Fermi gas is relevant for the quest to observe superfluidity in this system.
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