Probing pair-correlated fermionic atoms through correlations in atom shot noise.
Pair-correlated fermionic atoms are created through dissociation of weakly bound molecules near a magnetic-field Feshbach resonance. We show that correlations between atoms in different spin states can be detected using the atom shot noise in absorption images. Furthermore, using time-of-flight imaging we have observed atom pair correlations in momentum space.
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JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA. markus.greiner@colorado.edu
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