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Repulsively and Attractively Interacting Fermi-Mixtures in Optical Lattices

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arXiv:0904.4334 · Physics Letters A

A strongly attractive Fermi gas in an optical lattice

Oleksandr Fialko, A. Gammal, K. Ziegler

Published Jul 22, 2010• 2 citations

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DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2010.07.038

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