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Expansion of a lithium gas in the BEC-BCS crossover

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We report on experiments in 6^6Li Fermi gases near Feshbach resonances. A broad s-wave resonance is used to form a Bose-Einstein condensate of weakly bound 6^6Li2_2 molecules in a crossed optical trap. The measured molecule-molecule scattering length of 17060+100170^{+100}_{-60} nm at 770 G is found in good agreement with theory. The expansion energy of the cloud in the BEC-BCS crossover region is measured. Finally we discuss the properties of p-wave Feshbach resonances observed near 200 Gauss and new s-wave resonances in the heteronuclear 6^6Li- 7^7Li mixture.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410167,
  title  = {Expansion of a lithium gas in the BEC-BCS crossover},
  author = {J. Zhang and E. G. M. Van Kempen and T. Bourdel and L. Khaykovich and J. Cubizolles and F. Chevy and M. Teichmann and L. Tarruell and S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans and C. Salomon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410167},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of ICAP 2004