Stability and Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Superfluids Near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance
Abstract
The recent observations of a stable molecular condensate emerging from a condensate of bosonic atoms and related "super-chemical" dynamics have raised an intriguing set of questions. Here we provide a microscopic understanding of this unexpected stability and dynamics in atom-molecule superfluids; we show one essential element behind these phenomena is an extremely narrow Feshbach resonance in Cs at 19.849G. Comparing theory and experiment we demonstrate how this narrow resonance enables the dynamical creation of a large closed-channel molecular fraction superfluid, appearing in the vicinity of unitarity. Theoretically the observed superchemistry (\textit{i.e.}, Bose enhanced reactions of atoms and molecules), is found to be assisted by the formation of Cooper-like pairs of bosonic atoms that have opposite momenta. Importantly, this narrow resonance opens the possibility to explore the quantum critical point of a molecular Bose superfluid and related phenomena which would not be possible near a more typically broad Feshbach resonance.
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@article{arxiv.2310.01639,
title = {Stability and Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Superfluids Near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance},
author = {Zhiqiang Wang and Ke Wang and Zhendong Zhang and Shu Nagata and Cheng Chin and K. Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.01639},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
14 pages, 8 figures; close to the published version