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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Bistability in Resonant Fermi Superfluid

Lei Jiang, Han Pu, Andrew J. Robertson, Hong Yuan Ling

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

The resonant Fermi superfluid model can be mapped to one describing a single-mode laser field interacting with an ensemble of inhomogeneously broadened two-level atoms. Using this analogy, we study the bistability of the Fermi superfluid. ©2007 Optical Society of America
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2007.jwc9

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