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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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