Stability of the Repulsive Fermi Gas with Contact Interactions
Stability of the Repulsive Fermi Gas with Contact Interactions
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具有接触相互作用的排斥费米气体的稳定性
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.129.203402
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Navon, Nir
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作者:
Ji, Yunpeng;Schumacher, Grant L.;Assumpção, Gabriel G. T.;Chen, Jianyi;Mäkinen, Jere T.;Vivanco, Franklin J.;Navon, Nir
We report the creation and the study of the stability of a repulsive quasihomogeneous spin-Fermi gas with contact interactions. For the range of scattering lengthsexplored, the dominant mechanism of decay is a universal three-body recombination toward a Feshbach bound state. We observe that the recombination coefficient, where the first factor, the average kinetic energy per particle, arises from a three-body threshold law, and the second one from the universality of recombination. Both scaling laws are consequences of Pauli blocking effects in three-body collisions involving two identical fermions. As a result of the interplay between Fermi statistics and the momentum dependence of the recombination process, the system exhibits nontrivial temperature dynamics during recombination, alternatively heating or cooling depending on its initial quantum degeneracy. The measurement ofprovides an upper bound for the interaction strength achievable in equilibrium for a uniform repulsive Fermi gas.