Collapse of a degenerate Fermi gas |
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Authors: | Modugno Giovanni Roati Giacomo Riboli Francesco Ferlaino Francesca Brecha Robert J Inguscio Massimo |
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Institution: | European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy. modugno@lens.unifi.it |
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Abstract: | A degenerate gas of identical fermions is brought to collapse by the interaction with a Bose-Einstein condensate. We used an atomic mixture of fermionic potassium-40 and bosonic rubidium-87, in which the strong interspecies attraction leads to an instability above a critical number of particles. The observed phenomenon suggests a direction for manipulating fermion-fermion interactions on the route to superfluidity. |
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