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Pauli principle in a gas.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/10/1986
<mark>Journal</mark>Nature
Issue number6091
Volume323
Number of pages2
Pages (from-to)756-757
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A new and macroscopic demonstration of the Pauli exclusion principle, not in the familiar quantum liquids but in a gas, has been proposed by J.P. Bouchard and C. Lhuillier. Writing in a recent issue of Physics Letters A (116, 99; 1986), they suggest a series of experiments to seek an intriguing new kind of convective instability in dilute spin-pOlarized gases - that is, in gases whose constituent particles have magnetic moments mostly aligned in some preferred direction.