title: Thermodynamics of a trapped unitary Fermi gas.
abstract: We present the first model-independent comparison of recent measurements of the entropy and of the critical temperature of a unitary Fermi gas, performed by Luo et al., with the most complete results currently available from finite temperature Monte Carlo calculations. The measurement of the critical temperature in a cold fermionic atomic cloud is consistent with a value T(c) = 0.23(2)epsilon(F) in the bulk, as predicted by the present authors in their Monte Carlo calculations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA.
authors.forename: Aurel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bulgac
authors.forename: Joaquín E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Drut
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Magierski