Colloquium

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Pairing in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

April 1, 2009l Hit 839
Date : April 1, 2009 16:00 ~
Speaker : 신용일교수(MIT/SNU)
Professor :
Location : 56동106호
The pairing of fermions is the underlying mechanism for superconductivity and superfluidity. Ultracold atomic Fermi gases present a highly controllable model system for studying strongly interacting fermions and provide unique opportunities to investigate the stability of fermion pairs. Tunable interactions allow us to study the crossover physics from a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluid to a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid. Furthermore, the control of population or mass imbalance among the spin components gives us an interesting way to search for exotic forms of superfluidity. In this talk, I will present the phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with strong interactions and discuss the nature of observed normal and polarized superfluid phases in this strongly interacting regime.