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Dissociation and Decay of Ultra-cold Sodium Molecules

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

The dissociation of ultracold molecules is studied by ramping an external magnetic field through a Feshbach resonance. The observed dissociation energy shows non-linear dependence on the ramp speed and directly yields the strength of the atom-molecule coupling. In addition, inelastic molecule-molecule and molecule-atom collisions are characterized.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311558,
  title  = {Dissociation and Decay of Ultra-cold Sodium Molecules},
  author = {T. Mukaiyama and J. R. Abo-Shaeer and K. Xu and J. K. Chin and W. Ketterle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311558},
  year   = {2009}
}