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Nuclear-spin-independent short-range three-body physics in ultracold atoms

Quantum Gases 2012-05-29 v4 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We investigate three-body recombination loss across a Feshbach resonance in a gas of ultracold 7Li atoms prepared in the absolute ground state and perform a comparison with previously reported results of a different nuclear-spin state [N. Gross et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 163202, (2009)]. We extend the previously reported universality in three-body recombination loss across a Feshbach resonance to the absolute ground state. We show that the positions and widths of recombination minima and Efimov resonances are identical for both states which indicates that the short-range physics is nuclear-spin independent.

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@article{arxiv.1003.4891,
  title  = {Nuclear-spin-independent short-range three-body physics in ultracold atoms},
  author = {Noam Gross and Zav Shotan and Servaas Kokkelmans and Lev Khaykovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4891},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures