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  • Contact and Sum Rules in a ...
    Carcy, C; Hoinka, S; Lingham, M G; Dyke, P; Kuhn, C C N; Hu, H; Vale, C J

    Physical review letters, 2019-May-24, Volume: 122, Issue: 20
    Journal Article

    We present an experimental study of the high-energy excitation spectra of unitary Fermi gases. Using focused beam Bragg spectroscopy, we locally probe atoms in the central region of a harmonically trapped cloud where the density is nearly uniform, enabling measurements of the dynamic structure factor for a range of temperatures both below and above the superfluid transition. Applying sum rules to the measured Bragg spectra, we resolve the characteristic behavior of the universal contact parameter, C, across the superfluid transition. We also employ a recent theoretical result for the kinetic (second-moment) sum rule to obtain the internal energy of gases at unitarity.