Suppressed fluctuations in Fermi gases

Christoph I Westbrook (1)

1 laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique

Sometimes noise is actually signal. Two groups have shown how density fluctuations in a gas of identical fermions can be used as a nanokelvin thermometer.

Mots clés: Degenerate Fermi gas; Fluctuations; Thermometry

Domaines: Physique Quantique [quant-ph]

Christoph I Westbrook. Suppressed fluctuations in Fermi gases. Physics, 2010, 3, pp.59. ⟨10.1103/Physics.3.59⟩. ⟨hal-00539213⟩