10 Ultra-cold Polarized Fermi Gases

Christophe Mora

Published Aug 26, 2015• 97 citations

Abstract

Abstract. Recent experiments with ultra-cold atoms have demonstrated the possibility of realizing experimentally fermionic superfluids with imbalanced spin populations. We discuss how these developments have shed a new light on a half-century old open problem in condensed matter physics, and raised new interrogations of their own. 1.

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