Optical detection of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer phase transition in a trapped gas of fermionic atoms

Authors
Zhang, WP Sackett, CA Hulet, RG
Citation
Wp. Zhang et al., Optical detection of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer phase transition in a trapped gas of fermionic atoms, PHYS REV A, 60(1), 1999, pp. 504-507
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
ISSN journal
10502947 → ACNP
Volume
60
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
504 - 507
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(199907)60:1<504:ODOABP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A theoretical treatment of Light scattering from a degenerate Fermi gas of trapped ultracold Li-6 atoms is presented. We find that the scattered light contains information that directly reflects the quantum pair correlation d ue to the formation of atomic Cooper pairs resulting from a Bardeen-Cooper- Schrieffer phase transition to a superfluid state. Evidence for pairing sho uld be observable in both the space and time domains. [S1050-2917(99)09207- 0].