Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 180401 (2005) [4 pages]Formation Dynamics of a Fermion Pair CondensateReceived 23 December 2004; published 9 May 2005 The dynamics of pair condensate formation in a strongly interacting Fermi gas close to a Feshbach resonance was studied. We employed a phase-shift method in which the delayed response of the many-body system to a modulation of the interaction strength was recorded. The observable was the fraction of condensed molecules in the cloud after a rapid magnetic field ramp across the Feshbach resonance. The measured response time was slow compared to the rapid ramp, which provides final proof that the molecular condensates reflect the presence of fermion pair condensates before the ramp. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.180401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.180401
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 05.30.Fk
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