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arXiv:1003.0801 · Reports on Progress in Physics

Ultra-cold polarized Fermi gases

Frédéric Chevy, Christophe Mora

Published Oct 26, 2010• 210 citations
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Abstract

Recent experiments with ultra-cold atoms have demonstrated the possibility of realizing fermionic superfluids with imbalanced spin populations experimentally. We discuss how these developments have shed new light on a half-century-old open problem in condensed matter physics, and raised new interrogations of their own.
DOI
10.1088/0034-4885/73/11/112401

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