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Collisions of Ultracold Trapped Cesium Feshbach Molecules

Quantum Gases 2015-05-13 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study collisions in an optically trapped, pure sample of ultracold Cs2_2 molecules in various internal states. The molecular gas is created by Feshbach association from a near-degenerate atomic gas, with adjustable temperatures in the nanokelvin range. We identify several narrow loss resonances, which point to the coupling to more complex molecular states and may be interpreted as Feshbach resonances in dimer-dimer interactions. Moreover, in some molecular states we observe a surprising temperature dependence in collisional loss. This shows that the situation cannot be understood in terms of the usual simple threshold behavior for inelastic two-body collisions. We interpret this observation as further evidence for a more complex molecular structure beyond the well-understood dimer physics.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0935,
  title  = {Collisions of Ultracold Trapped Cesium Feshbach Molecules},
  author = {F. Ferlaino and S. Knoop and M. Berninger and M. Mark and H. -C. Naegerl and R. Grimm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0935},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in Laser Physics, special issue in memoriam Prof. Vladilen S. Letokhov