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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures