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Pre-pairing for condensation

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Pair formation and condensation usually occur together in Fermi superfluids. The observation of a pseudogap that implies pairing above the condensation temperature in a strongly interacting Fermi gas is thus an exciting development.

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Figure 1: Phase diagram of the BCS to BEC crossover as a function of the dimensionless attraction 1/(kFas) (where kF is the Fermi momentum and as is the scattering length) and the temperature T in units of EF.

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