Mechanical Stability of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms

Details Mechanical Stability of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms Mechanical Stability of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms

2002-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212499v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages RevTeX4, 2 figures, 1 table. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.011401

A strongly-attractive, two-component Fermi gas of atoms exhibits universal behavior and should be mechanically stable as a consequence of the quantum mechanical requirement of unitarity. This requirement limits the maximum attractive force to a value smaller than that of the outward Fermi pressure. To experimentally demonstrate this stability, we use all-optical methods to produce a highly degenerate, two-component gas of $^6$Li atoms in an applied magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance, where strong interactions are observed. We find that the gas is stable at densities far exceeding that predicted previously for the onset of mechanical instability. Further, we provide a temperature-corrected measurement of an important, universal, many-body parameter which determines the stability--the mean field contribution to the chemical potential in units of the local Fermi energy.

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