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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 32: Fermionic Quantum Gases II (joint session Q/A)
Q 32.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 15:00–15:15, Aula
Unravelling Interaction and Temperature Contributions in Unpolarized Trapped Fermionic Atoms in the BCS Regime — •Sejung Yong, Sian Barbosa, Jennifer Koch, Felix Lang, Axel Pelster, and Artur Widera — Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
In the BCS limit density profiles for unpolarized trapped fermionic clouds of atoms are largely featureless. Therefore, it is a delicate task to analyze them in order to quantify their respective interaction and temperature contributions. Temperature measurements have so far been mostly considered in an indirect way, where one sweeps isentropically from the BCS to the BEC limit. Instead we suggest here a direct thermometry, which relies on measuring the column density and comparing the obtained data with a Hartree-Bogoliubov mean-field theory combined with a local density approximation. In case of an attractive interaction between two-components of 6Li atoms trapped in a tri-axial harmonic confinement we show that minimizing the error within such an experiment-theory collaboration turns out to be a reasonable criterion for analyzing in detail measured densities and, thus, for ultimately determining the sample temperatures. The findings are discussed in view of various possible sources of errors.
[1] S. Yong, S. Barbosa, J. Koch, F. Lang, A. Pelster, and A. Widera, arXiv:2311.08853
Keywords: unpolarized fermionic atoms; BCS limit; thermometry; density profiles; mean-field theory