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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Polarons, dressed molecules and itinerant ferromagnetism in ultracold Fermi gases
Pietro Massignan1, Matteo Zaccanti, Georg M Bruun
1ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, E-08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
In this review, we discuss the properties of a few impurity atoms immersed in a gas of ultracold fermions--the so-called Fermi polaron problem. On one hand, this many-body system is appealing because it can be described almost exactly with simple diagrammatic and/or variational theoretical approaches. On the other, it provides a quantitatively reliable insight into the phase diagram of strongly interacting population-imbalanced quantum mixtures. In particular, we show that the polaron problem can be applied to the study of itinerant ferromagnetism, a long-standing problem in quantum mechanics.
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