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CHAPTER 5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS<br />
Γ/γ<br />
5<br />
4<br />
3<br />
2<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0,0<br />
0,5 1,0 1,5 2,0<br />
Te m pe rature T/T F<br />
Figure 5.7: The correction factor between the typical scattering rate γ<br />
resulting from the calcu<strong>la</strong>tions in the text and the real scattering rate Γ<br />
as a function of the temperature. The scattering rate <strong>de</strong>creases for high<br />
temperatures as does the scattering cross section. At low temperatures the<br />
Pauli exclusion principle reduces the scattering rate. This can <strong>de</strong>crease<br />
scattering down to values found in the noninteracting regime, but as the<br />
gas con<strong>de</strong>nses at these low temperatures, it will become hydrodynamic.<br />
Figure taken from reference [106]<br />
point where a = 0, so that we can expect to enter into the collisionless<br />
regime at some point.<br />
In the experiment, one has to be careful about judging whether an<br />
expansion is anisotropic or not: the ellipticity of the expan<strong>de</strong>d cloud is<br />
not a clear signature, as the cloud will always be elliptic initially if the trap<br />
is not isotropic. An anisotropically expanding cloud will eventually invert<br />
its ellipticity. As this will never happen for an isotropically expanding<br />
cloud, this ellipticity inversion is a clear signature of an anisotropic<br />
expansion.<br />
Our final goal is to distinguish the superfluid state from a normal<br />
state. Originally, it was proposed to take the same path as for bosons<br />
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