Compressibility of an ultracold Fermi gas with repulsive interactions

作者:Lee Ye Ryoung*; Heo Myoung Sun; Choi Jae Hoon; Wang Tout T; Christensen Caleb A; Rvachov Timur M; Ketterle Wolfgang
来源:Physical Review A, 2012, 85(6): 063615.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.063615

摘要

Fermi gases with repulsive interactions are characterized by measuring their compressibility as a function of interaction strength. The compressibility is obtained from in-trap density distributions monitored by phase-contrast imaging. For interaction parameters k(F) a > 0.25, fast decay of the gas prevents the observation of equilibrium profiles. For smaller interaction parameters, the results are adequately described by first-order perturbation theory. We have developed a phase-contrast imaging method that compensates for dispersive distortions of the images.

  • 出版日期2012-6-21