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Collisions between tunable halo dimers: exploring an elementary four-body process with identical bosons

Other Condensed Matter 2008-07-22 v2

Abstract

We study inelastic collisions in a pure, trapped sample of Feshbach molecules made of bosonic cesium atoms in the quantum halo regime. We measure the relaxation rate coefficient for decay to lower-lying molecular states and study the dependence on scattering length and temperature. We identify a pronounced loss minimum with varying scattering length along with a further suppression of loss with decreasing temperature. Our observations provide insight into the physics of a few-body quantum system that consists of four identical bosons at large values of the two-body scattering length.

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@article{arxiv.0803.4078,
  title  = {Collisions between tunable halo dimers: exploring an elementary four-body process with identical bosons},
  author = {F. Ferlaino and S. Knoop and M. Mark and M. Berninger and H. Schöbel and H. -C. Nägerl and R. Grimm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.4078},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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