Publications [#248511] of John E. Thomas

Papers Published

1. Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Damping of a unitary Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 94 no. 17 (May, 2005), pp. 170404, ISSN 0031-9007 [15904273], [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/24)

   Abstract:
   We measure the temperature dependence of the radial breathing mode in an optically trapped, unitary Fermi gas of 6Li, just above the center of a broad Feshbach resonance. The damping rate reveals a clear change in behavior which we interpret as arising from a superfluid transition. We suggest pair breaking as a mechanism for an increase in the damping rate which occurs at temperatures well above the transition. In contrast to the damping, the frequency varies smoothly and remains close to the unitary hydrodynamic value. At low temperature T, the damping depends on the atom number only through the reduced temperature, and extrapolates to 0 at T = 0.