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Observation of resonant scattering between ultracold heteronuclear Feshbach molecules

Quantum Gases 2019-08-16 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We report the observation of a dimer-dimer inelastic collision resonance for ultracold Feshbach molecules made of bosonic sodium and rubidium atoms. This resonance, which we attribute to the crossing of the dimer-dimer threshold with a heteronuclear tetramer state, manifests itself as a pronounced inelastic loss peak of dimers when the interspecies scattering length between the constituent atoms is tuned. Near this resonance, a strong modification of the temperature dependence of the dimer-dimer scattering is observed. Our result provides insight into the heteronuclear four-body system consisting of heavy and light bosons and offers the possibility of investigating ultracold molecules with tunable interactions.

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@article{arxiv.1611.03198,
  title  = {Observation of resonant scattering between ultracold heteronuclear Feshbach molecules},
  author = {Fudong Wang and Xin Ye and Mingyang Guo and D. Blume and Dajun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03198},
  year   = {2019}
}

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