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Physics Today / Volume 61 / Issue 10 / ARTICLES

When fermions become bosons: Pairing in ultracold gases

Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo

Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

October 2008, page 45

Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3001867
The unprecedented control over the interactions and pairing of ultracold fermionic atoms provides insight into exotic strongly correlated phenomena and illuminates the physics of superfluidity in metals, nuclei, and neutron stars.

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ISSN

0031-9228 (print)  

Publisher

$abstract.society.value is a Member of CrossRef American Institute of Physics

PACS

  • 67.10.Jn

    Transport properties and hydrodynamics

  • 67.85.De

    Dynamic properties of condensates; excitations, and superfluid flow

  • 67.85.Fg

    Multicomponent condensates; spinor condensates

  • 67.85.Lm

    Degenerate Fermi gases

  • 74.20.Fg

    BCS theory and its development

  • 74.20.Rp

    Pairing symmetries (other than s-wave)

  • 03.75.Kk

    Dynamic properties of condensates; collective and hydrodynamic excitations, superfluid flow

  • 03.75.Ss

    Degenerate Fermi gases

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