High temperature pairing in a strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi gas

We observe many-body pairing in a two-dimensional gas of ultracold fermionic atoms at temperatures far above the critical temperature for superfluidity. For this, we use spatially resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy to measure pairing energies spanning a wide range of temperatures and interaction...

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Main Authors: Murthy, Puneet A. (Author) , Neidig, Mathias (Author) , Klemt, Ralf (Author) , Bayha, Luca (Author) , Enss, Tilman (Author) , Holten, Marvin (Author) , Zürn, Gerhard (Author) , Jochim, Selim (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10577
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Author Notes:P.A. Murthy, M. Neidig, R. Klemt, L. Bayha, I. Boettcher, T. Enss, M. Holten, G. Zürn, P.M. Preiss, and S. Jochim
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Summary:We observe many-body pairing in a two-dimensional gas of ultracold fermionic atoms at temperatures far above the critical temperature for superfluidity. For this, we use spatially resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy to measure pairing energies spanning a wide range of temperatures and interaction strengths. In the strongly interacting regime where the scattering length between fermions is on the same order as the inter-particle spacing, the pairing energy in the normal phase significantly exceeds the intrinsic two-body binding energy of the system and shows a clear dependence on local density. This implies that pairing in this regime is driven by many-body correlations, rather than two-body physics. We find this effect to persist at temperatures close to the Fermi temperature which demonstrates that pairing correlations in strongly interacting two-dimensional fermionic systems are remarkably robust against thermal fluctuations.
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