Vortices and Superfluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Details Vortices and Superfluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas Vortices and Superfluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

2005-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505635v1

Nature 435, 1047-1051 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

14 pages, including 7 figures, submitted to Nature

Scientific paper

10.1038/nature03858

Quantum-degenerate Fermi gases provide a remarkable opportunity to study strongly interacting fermions. In contrast to other Fermi systems, such as superconductors, neutron stars or the quark-gluon plasma, these gases have low densities and their interactions can be precisely controlled over an enormous range. Here we report observations of vortices in such a gas that provide definitive evidence for superfluidity. By varying the pairing strength between two fermions near a Feshbach resonance, one can explore the crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of molecules to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid of loosely bound pairs whose size is comparable to, or even larger than, the interparticle spacing. The crossover realizes a novel form of high-T_C superfluidity and it may provide new insight for high-T_C superconductors. Previous experiments with Fermi gases have revealed condensation of fermion pairs. While these and other studies were consistent with predictions assuming superfluidity, the smoking gun for superfluid behavior has been elusive. Our observation of vortex lattices directly displays superfluid flow in a strongly interacting, rotating Fermi gas.

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