Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 49, Number 3, February I 2000
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Page(s) | 282 - 288 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00146-1 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Optical detection of a BCS transition of lithium-6 in harmonic traps
Sektion Physik, Universität München
Theresienstr. 37/III, D-80333 München, Germany
Received:
16
August
1999
Accepted:
24
November
1999
We study the detection of a BCS transition within a sample of lithium-6 atoms confined in a harmonic trap. Using the local density approximation we calculate the pair correlation function in the normal and superfluid state at zero temperature. We show that the softening of the Fermi hole associated with a BCS transition leads to an observable increase in the intensity of off-resonant light scattered from the atomic cloud at small angles.
PACS: 03.75.Fi – Phase coherent atomic ensembles; quantum condensation phenomena / 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping / 05.30.Fk – Fermion systems and electron gas
© EDP Sciences, 2000
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