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Ultracold Fermi Gas

• Energy-resolved spin correlation measurements: Decoding transverse spin dynamics in weakly interacting Fermi gases
  Phys. Rev. A. 109, L041301 (2024)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Verifying a quasiclassical spin model of perturbed quantum rewinding in a Fermi gas
  Phys. Rev. A. 108, L041304 (2023)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Hydrodynamic Relaxation in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090402 (2022)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Energy-Resolved Information Scrambling in Energy-Space Lattices
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070601 (2021)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Measuring the Hydrodynamic Linear Response of a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160402 (2019)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Spin-energy correlation in degenerate weakly interacting Fermi gases
  Phys. Rev. A 99, 063620 (2019)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Designer Spatial Control of Interactions in Ultracold Gases
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040405 (2019)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083203 (2018)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Probing Energy-Dependent Feshbach Resonances by Optical Control
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163404 (2018)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Fermi gases in the two-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional crossover
  Phys. Rev. A 94, 031606(R) (2016)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Optical Control of Magnetic Feshbach Resonances by Closed-Channel Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075301 (2016)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Shear Viscosity of a Unitary Fermi Gas Near the Superfluid Phase Transition
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 020401 (2015)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Spin-Imbalanced Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 110403 (2015)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Anomalous Minimum in the Shear Viscosity of a Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 020406 (2014)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Observation of Conformal Symmetry Breaking and Scale Invariance in Expanding Fermi Gases
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 040405 (2014)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Optical control of the scattering length and effective range for magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases
  Phys. Rev. A 86, 063625 (2012)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: Ultracold Quantum Gases, Quantum Chromodynamic Plasmas, and Holographic Duality
  New Journal of Physics 14, (2012) 115009 (121pp)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Polaron-to-Polaron Transitions in the Radio-Frequency Spectrum of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235302 (2012)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)(Supplementary Material PDF)


• Optical Control of Feshbach Resonances in Fermi Gases Using Molecular Dark States
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 010401 (2012)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Searching for perfect fluids: quantum viscosity in a universal Fermi gas
  New J. Phys. 13, 075007 (2011)
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• Observation of Shock Waves in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 150401 (2011)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Universal Quantum Viscosity in a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Science, published online 9 December 2010 (10.1126/science.1195219)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• The nearly perfect Fermi gas
  Physics Today, vol. 63, issue 5, 34 (2010)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Is an Ultra-Cold Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas a Perfect Fluid?
  Nuclear Physics A 830, 665c (2009)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Controlling Spin Current in a Trapped Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 010401 (2009)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Inelastic Collisions of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250402 (2009)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Thermodynamic Measurements in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
  J Low Temp Phys 154 1 (2009)
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• Observation of Anomalous Spin Segregation in a Trapped Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 150401 (2008)
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• Is a Gas of Strongly Interacting Atomic Fermions a Nearly Perfect Fluid?
  J Low Temp. Phys. 150, 567 (2008)
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• Observation of Nearly Perfect Irrotational Flow in Normal and Superfluid Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140401 (2007)
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• Measurement of Sound Velocity in a Fermi Gas near a Feshbach Resonance
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170401 (2007)
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• Measurement of the Entropy and Critical Temperature of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080402 (2007)
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• Optical trapping and fundamental studies of atomic fermi gases
  Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6326 (2006)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Universal thermodynamics of a strongly interacting Fermi gas
  AIP Conference Proceedings (LT24) 850, 69 (2006)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Evaporative cooling of unitary Fermi gas mixtures in optical traps
  New J. Phys. 8, 213 (2006)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Heat capacity of a strongly interacting Fermi gas
  Science, 25 February 2005 (10.1126/science.1109220)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Damping of a unitary Fermi gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170404 (2005)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Virial Theorem and Universality in a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 120402 (2005)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Breakdown of hydrodynamics in the radial breathing mode of a strongly interacting Fermi gas
  Phys. Rev. A 70, 051401(R) (2004)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• "Evidence for superfluidity in a resonantly interacting Fermi gas"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150402 (2004)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• "Optically trapped Fermi gases"
  American Scientist Vol.92, May-June 2004 (pg. 238-245)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Unitarity-limited elastic collision rate in a harmonically trapped Fermi gas
  Phys. Rev. A 68, 011603(R) (2003)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms
  Phys. Rev. A 68, 011401(R) (2003)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Observation of a strongly-interacting degenerate Fermi gas of atoms
  Science, published online 7 November 2002 (10.1126/science.1079107),
  appeared in print 13 December 2002 Volume 298, pp. 2179-2182
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Measurement of the zero crossing in a Feshbach resonance of fermionic 6Li
  Phys. Rev. A 66, 041401(R) (2002)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• All-Optical Production of a Degenerate Fermi Gas
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 120405 (2002)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Scaling laws for evaporative cooling in time-dependent optical traps
  Phys. Rev. A 64, 051403(R) (2001)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Loading dynamics of CO2 laser traps
  Phys. Rev. A 63, 043403 (2001)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Stable, Strongly Attractive, Two-State Mixture of Lithium Fermions in an Optical Trap
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2092 (2000)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Quantum-diffractive background gas collisions in atom-trap heating and loss
  Phys. Rev. A 60, 29(R) (1999)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Ultrastable CO2 Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4204 (1999)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Raman-induced magnetic resonance imaging of atoms in a magneto-optical trap
  Phys. Rev. A 60, 4788 (1999)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Dynamics of noise-induced heating in atom traps
  Phys. Rev. A 58, 3914 (1998) (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)
  Erratum
  Phys. Rev. A 61, 029902 (2000)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Laser-noise-induced heating in far-off resonance optical traps
  Phys. Rev. A 56, 1095(R) (1997)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)

Classical Analogs of Multiparticle Quantum Systems

• Experimental simulation of quantum entanglement using classical fields
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097902 (2002).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Heterodyne measurement of Wigner distributions for classical fields
  Opt. Lett. 24, 1370 (1999).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF 504 kB)

Light Scattering in Turbid Media

• Time-resolved, two-window measurement of Wigner functions for coherent backscatter from a turbid medium
  Proc. SPIE 4705, pp. 22-29 (2002).
  (Abstract at Journal Website)


• Wigner Phase Space Distributions and Coherence Tomography
  Proc. SPIE 3927, 147-155 (2000).
  (Abstract at Journal Website)


• Wigner Phase Space Distributions and Coherence Tomography
  in Proc. SPIE 3914, 363-371 (2000).
  (Abstract at Journal Website)


• Path-length-resolved optical phase space distributions for enhanced backscatter
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 66 (2000).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Time-resolved optical phase space distributions for coherent backscatter
  Proc. SPIE 4001, 130-134 (2000).
  (Abstractat Journal Website)


• Characterizing the coherence of broadband sources using optical phase space contours
  J. Biomed. Opt. 4, 1-8 (1999).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Heterodyne measurement of Wigner distributions for classical fields
  Opt. Lett. 24, 1370 (1999).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Measurement of Smoothed Wigner Phase Space Distributions for Low-Coherence Light in Multiple Scattering Media
  Proc. SPIE, 3598, 2, (1999).
  (Abstract at Journal Website)


• Measurement of Smoothed Wigner Phase Space Distributions for Coherence Tomography
  Proc. SPIE 3726, 494 (1999).
  (Abstract at Journal Website)


• Measurement of Wigner Phase-Space Distributions for Small-Angle Scattering in a Turbid Media
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, 1896-1908 (1998).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)


• Optical Heterodyne Imaging and Wigner Phase Space Distributions
  Opt. Lett. 21, 1427 (1996).
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF)