Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gases in Reduced Dimensions
Abstract
Optically-trapped, strongly-interacting Fermi gases are models for exotic strongly-interacting systems in nature. For this reason, tabletop experiments with strongly-interacting atomic Fermi gases can provide measurements that are relevant to all strongly-interacting Fermi systems, thus impacting theories in intellectual disciplines outside atomic physics, including materials science and condensed matter physics (superconductivity), nuclear physics (nuclear matter), high-energy physics (effective theories of the strong interactions), astrophysics (compact stellar objects), the physics of quark-gluon plasmas (elliptic flow), and most recently, string-theory (minimum viscosity hydrodynamics). Recent experiments have been carried out in a three dimensional geometry, where the adiabatic local density approximation is valid. The purpose of this program is to explore strongly-interacting Fermi gases in a two-dimensional pancake geometry, where the simplest approximations break down.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 29, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA519063
Entities
People
- John E. Thomas
Organizations
- Duke University