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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Reply to "Comment on 'Temperature inversion in long-range interacting systems' "
Tarcísio N Teles1,2, Shamik Gupta3, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio4
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15051, Código de Endereçamento Postal 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Abstract:
We present evidence that the mechanism proposed in Teles et al. [Phys. Rev. E 92, 020101 (2015)PRESCM1539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.92.020101], referred to as the TGDC mechanism, does apply to a model with repulsive mean-field interactions where it produces temperature inversion in a state whose inhomogeneity is due to an external field. Such evidence contradicts the core statement of the Comment. We also discuss a related issue, concerning the possible application of the TGDC mechanism to the solar corona.
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