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Abstract:
Optically-trapped, strongly-interacting Fermi gases are models for exotic strongly-interacting systems in nature. For this reason, tabletop experiments with strongly-interacting atomic Fermi gases can provide measurements that are relevant to all strongly-interacting Fermi systems, thus impacting theories in intellectual disciplines outside atomic physics, including materials science and condensed matter physics (superconductivity), nuclear physics (nuclear matter), high-energy physics (effective theories of the strong interactions), astrophysics (compact stellar objects), the physics of quark-gluon plasmas (elliptic flow), and most recently, string-theory (minimum viscosity hydrodynamics). Recent experiments have been carried out in a three dimensional geometry, where the adiabatic local density approximation is valid. The purpose of this program is to explore strongly-interacting Fermi gases in a two-dimensional pancake geometry, where the simplest approximations break down.
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 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE |
| Description: |
Final rept. 15 May 2005-14 Nov 2008 |
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12 |
| Report Date: |
29 May 2009 |
| Contract Number: |
W911NF-05-1-0273 W911NF0510273 |
| Report Number: |
A360915 |
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