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Hydrodynamic expansion of a strongly interacting Fermi-Fermi mixture

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posted on 2024-07-26, 13:54 authored by A. Trenkwalder, C. Kohstall, M. Zaccanti, D. Naik, Andrei SidorovAndrei Sidorov, F. Schreck, R. Grimm
We report on the expansion of an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of 6Li and 40K under conditions of strong interactions controlled via an interspecies Feshbach resonance. We study the expansion of the mixture after release from the trap and, in a narrow magnetic-field range, we observe two phenomena related to hydrodynamic behavior. The common inversion of the aspect ratio is found to be accompanied by a collective effect where both species stick together and expand jointly despite of their widely different masses. Our work constitutes a major experimental step for a controlled investigation of the many-body physics of this novel strongly interacting quantum system.

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European Science Foundation

FWF Austrian Science Fund

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0031-9007

Journal title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

106

Issue

11

Article number

article no. 115304

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3 pp

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American Physical Society

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Copyright © 2011 American Physical Society. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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eng

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