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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.203402
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- National Science Foundation (Center for Ultracold Atoms Awards) [PHY-1734011, PHY-1506019]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-16-1-0324, FA9550-14-1-0035]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-17-1-2257]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- LabEX ENS-ICFP [ANR-10-LABX-0010/ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*]
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We measure radio frequency (rf) spectra of the homogeneous unitary Fermi gas at temperatures ranging from the Boltzmann regime through quantum degeneracy and across the superfluid transition. For all temperatures, a single spectral peak is observed. Its position smoothly evolves from the bare atomic resonance in the Boltzmann regime to a frequency corresponding to nearly one Fermi energy at the lowest temperatures. At high temperatures, the peak width reflects the scattering rate of the atoms, while at low temperatures, the width is set by the size of fermion pairs. Above the superfluid transition, and approaching the quantum critical regime, the width increases linearly with temperature, indicating non-Fermi-liquid behavior. From the wings of the rf spectra, we obtain the contact, quantifying the strength of short-range pair correlations. We find that the contact rapidly increases as the gas is cooled below the superfluid transition.
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