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Precise determination of $^6$Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound molecules

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We employ radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound 6^6Li2_2 molecules to precisely determine the molecular binding energies and the energy splittings between molecular states for different magnetic fields. These measurements allow us to extract the interaction parameters of ultracold 6^6Li atoms based on a multi-channel quantum scattering model. We determine the singlet and triplet scattering lengths to be as=45.167(8)a0a_s=45.167(8)a_0 and at=2140(18)a0a_t=-2140(18)a_0 (1 a0a_0 = 0.0529177 nm), and the positions of the broad Feshbach resonances in the energetically lowest three ss-wave scattering channels to be 83.41(15) mT, 69.04(5) mT, and 81.12(10) mT.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408673,
  title  = {Precise determination of $^6$Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound molecules},
  author = {M. Bartenstein and A. Altmeyer and S. Riedl and R. Geursen and S. Jochim and C. Chin and J. Hecker Denschlag and R. Grimm and A. Simoni and E. Tiesinga and C. J. Williams and P. S. Julienne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408673},
  year   = {2009}
}