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Stability and Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Superfluids Near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance

Quantum Gases 2024-07-16 v2 Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

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 133^{133}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