Suppression of Density Fluctuations in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas
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Sanner, Christian Burkhard
Su, Edward Joseph
Keshet, Aviv
Gommers, Ralf
Shin, Yong-il
Huang, Wujie
Ketterle, Wolfgang
Date Issued
July 2010
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Sanner, Christian et al. "Suppression of Density Fluctuations in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas." Physical Review Letters 105.4 (2010): 040402. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
We study density profiles of an ideal Fermi gas and observe Pauli suppression of density fluctuations (atom shot noise) for cold clouds deep in the quantum degenerate regime. Strong suppression is observed for probe volumes containing more than 10 000 atoms. Measuring the level of suppression provides sensitive thermometry at low temperatures. After this method of sensitive noise measurements has been validated with an ideal Fermi gas, it can now be applied to characterize phase transitions in strongly correlated many-body systems.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.040402
