RF Spectroscopy on a Homogeneous Fermi Gas

ORAL

Abstract

Over the last two decades RF spectroscopy has been established as an indispensable tool to probe a large variety of fundamental properties of strongly interacting Fermi gases. This ranges from measurement of the pairing gap over tan's contact to the quasi-particle weight of Fermi polarons. So far, most RF spectroscopy experiments have been performed in harmonic traps, resulting in an averaged response over different densities. We have realized an optical uniform potential for ultracold Fermi gases of $^6$Li atoms, which allows us to avoid the usual problems connected to inhomogeneous systems. Here we present recent results on RF spectroscopy of these homogeneous samples with a high signal to noise ratio. In addition, we report progress on measuring the contact of a unitary Fermi gas across the normal to superfluid transition.

Authors

  • Zhenjie Yan

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Biswaroop Mukherjee

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Parth Patel

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Julian Struck

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Martin Zwierlein

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT