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Temperature-Controlled Resonance in a Heteronuclear Quantum Gas Mixture

Quantum Gases 2026-05-19 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Single-channel resonances are fundamental processes in scattering of atoms, yet their occurrence is largely incidental and lacks systematic control. In this Letter, we propose a mechanism to realize a continuously tunable single-channel resonance by controlling the temperature of the heteronuclear mixture. By extending the Casimir-like mediated interaction to finite temperature, we demonstrate that thermal smearing of the Fermi surface reshapes the effective potential between impurities, giving rise to a temperature-controlled resonance (TCR) over a wide parameter range. As a direct consequence, the resonance position shifts systematically with temperature variation, providing a clear experimental signature of this mechanism. We further investigate the quench dynamics of a Bose gas immersed in a Fermi sea and demonstrate that the observed temperature-dependent loss features in recent experiments are consistent with the TCR mechanism. Our results establish temperature as a simple and experimentally accessible control knob for single-channel resonances in ultracold quantum gases.

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@article{arxiv.2605.17931,
  title  = {Temperature-Controlled Resonance in a Heteronuclear Quantum Gas Mixture},
  author = {Xiaoyi Yang and Tianyu Xu and Shengli Ma and Zhigang Wu and Ren Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17931},
  year   = {2026}
}

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7+7 pages, 4+2 figures