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Auteurs principaux: Orsi, Francesca, Fedotova, Ekaterina, Bhatt, Rohit Prasad, Eichenberger, Mae, Dubois, Léa, Brantut, Jean-Philippe
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08691
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  • We study the superradiant phase transition of a mesoscopic Fermi gas comprising between a few tens and a few thousand $^6$Li atoms in a high-finesse cavity across a wide range of densities. We observe a non-monotonic variation of the superradiant threshold as a function of density, with a minimum reached when the Fermi and recoil wavevectors are comparable. The minimum corresponds to a crossover between Fermi pressure-assisted ordering and Pauli blocking of photon scattering, in good agreement with theory. This interpretation is confirmed by a study of the atom-number dependence of the ordering threshold and photon number scaling. Lastly, we demonstrate the operation of our mesoscopic system in a regime where light-induced forces are opposite for the two spin components, leading to an ordered phase with a spin-density-wave character. Our system opens the perspective of studying few-fermion systems with strong and coherent light-matter coupling.