Diffraction of a Superfluid Fermi Gas by an Atomic Grating

C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, P. Meystre

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Abstract

An atomic grating generated by a pulsed standing-wave laser field is proposed to manipulate the superfluid state in a quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms. We show that in the presence of atomic Cooper pairs, the density oscillations of the gas caused by the atomic grating exhibit a much longer coherence time than that in the normal Fermi gas. Our result indicates that the technique of a pulsed atomic grating is a potential candidate to detect the atomic superfluid state in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume88
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

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