Evidence for superfluidity in a resonantly interacting Fermi gas.

نویسندگان

  • J Kinast
  • S L Hemmer
  • M E Gehm
  • A Turlapov
  • J E Thomas
چکیده

We observe collective oscillations of a trapped, degenerate Fermi gas of 6Li atoms at a magnetic field just above a Feshbach resonance, where the two-body physics does not support a bound state. The gas exhibits a radial breathing mode at a frequency of 2837(05) Hz, in excellent agreement with the frequency of nu(H) identical with sqrt[10nu(x)nu(y)/3]=2830(20) Hz predicted for a hydrodynamic Fermi gas with unitarity-limited interactions. The measured damping times and frequencies are inconsistent with predictions for both the collisionless mean field regime and for collisional hydrodynamics. These observations provide the first evidence for superfluid hydrodynamics in a resonantly interacting Fermi gas.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 92 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004