Atom interferometric detection of the pairing order parameter in a Fermi gas

Anno: 2005

Autori: Carusotto I., Castin Y.

Affiliazione autori: Univ Trent, INFM, BEC, I-38050 Povo, Italy; Univ Paris 06, Ecole Normale Super, Lab Kastler Brossel, CNRS,Unite Rech, F-75005 Paris, France.

Abstract: We propose two interferometric schemes to experimentally detect in real space the onset of pair condensation in a two-spin-component Fermi gas. Two atomic wave packets are coherently extracted from the gas at different positions and are mixed by a matter-wave beam splitter: we show that the spatial long-range order of the atomic pairs in the gas reflects in the atom counting statistics in the beam splitter output channels. The same long-range order is also shown to create a matter-wave grating in the overlapping region of the two extracted wave packets, grating that can be revealed by a light-scattering experiment.

Giornale/Rivista: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 94 (22)      Da Pagina: 223202-1  A: 223202-4

Parole chiavi: Bose-einstein Condensate; Coherence; State; Bcs
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.223202

Citazioni: 29
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