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Ultracold molecules trapped in optical tweezers show great promise for the implementation of quantum technologies and precision measurements. We study a prototypical scenario where two interacting polar molecules placed in separate traps…

We derive the equilibrium conditions for a thermal atom-molecule mixture near a Feshbach resonance. Under the assumption of low collisional loss, thermodynamical properties are calculated and compared to the measurements of a recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheng Chin , Rudolf Grimm

We use laser light near-resonant with a molecular bound-to-bound transition to control a magnetic Feshbach resonance in ultracold Fermi gases of $^{40}$K atoms. The spectrum of excited molecular states is measured by applying a laser field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhengkun Fu , Pengjun Wang , Lianghui Huang , Zengming Meng , Hui Hu , Jing Zhang

We investigate evolution of the quantum coherence in the ultracold mixture of fermionic atoms and bosonic dimer molecules. Interactions are there experimentally controlled via tuning the external magnetic field. Consequently, the fermionic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Domanski

Ultra-cold atoms provide ideal platforms for interferometry. The macroscopic matter-wave property of ultra-cold atoms leads to large coherent length and long coherent time, which enable high accuracy and sensitivity to measurement. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-25 Xiangyu Dong , Shengjie Jin , Hongmian Shui , Peng Peng , Xiaoji Zhou

We study the behavior of the Eisenbud-Wigner collisional time delay around Feshbach resonances in cold and ultracold atomic and molecular collisions. We carry out coupled-channels scattering calculations on ultracold Rb and Cs collisions.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Matthew D. Frye , Jeremy M. Hutson

Molecules are created from a Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic 87Rb using a Feshbach resonance. A Stern-Gerlach field is applied, in order to spatially separate the molecules from the remaining atoms. For detection, the molecules are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Dürr , Thomas Volz , Andreas Marte , Gerhard Rempe

In recent experiments on ultracold matter, molecules have been produced from ultracold atoms by photoassociation, Feshbach resonances, and three-body recombination. The created molecules are translationally cold, but vibrationally highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christiane P. Koch , José P. Palao , Ronnie Kosloff , Françoise Masnou-Seeuws

Coherent coupling between atoms and molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has been observed. Oscillations between atomic and molecular states were excited by sudden changes in the magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elizabeth A. Donley , Neil R. Claussen , Sarah T. Thompson , Carl E. Wieman

We report on the observation of an elementary exchange process in an optically trapped ultracold sample of atoms and Feshbach molecules. We can magnetically control the energetic nature of the process and tune it from endoergic to exoergic,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-01 S. Knoop , F. Ferlaino , M. Berninger , M. Mark , H. -C. Nägerl , R. Grimm , J. P. D'Incao , B. D. Esry

We report on the experimental observation of a novel inter-orbital Feshbach resonance in ultracold 173-Yb atoms, which opens the possibility of tuning the interactions between the 1S0 and 3P0 metastable state, both possessing vanishing…

Ultracold quantum-gas mixtures of fermionic atoms with resonant control of interactions offer a unique test-bed to explore few- and many-body quantum states with unconventional properties. The emergence of such strongly correlated systems,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-16 Zhu-Xiong Ye , Alberto Canali , Chun-Kit Wong , Marian Kreyer , Emil Kirilov , Rudolf Grimm

The conversion of ultracold atoms to molecules via a magnetic Feshbach resonance with a sinusoidal modulation of the field is studied. Different practical realizations of this method in Bose atomic gases are analyzed. Our model incorporates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Brouard , J. Plata

Tunable scattering resonances are crucial for controlling atomic and molecular systems. However, their use has so far been limited to ultracold temperatures. These conditions remain hard to achieve for most hybrid trapped ion-atom systems…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Maks Z. Walewski , Matthew D. Frye , Or Katz , Meirav Pinkas , Roee Ozeri , Michał Tomza

We report on the creation of heterospecies bosonic molecules, associated from an ultracold Bose-Bose mixture of 41K and 87Rb, by using a resonantly modulated magnetic field close to two Feshbach resonances. We measure the binding energy of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-29 C. Weber , G. Barontini , J. Catani , G. Thalhammer , M. Inguscio , F. Minardi

Improvements to dual-comb interferometers will benefit precision spectroscopy and sensing, distance metrology, tomography, telecommunications etc. A specific requirement of such interferometers is to enforce mutual coherence between the two…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Zaijun Chen , Ming Yan , Theodor W. Hänsch , Nathalie Picqué

Magnetic Feshbach resonances play a central role in experimental research of atomic gases at ultracold temperatures, as they allow one to control the microscopic interactions between ultracold atoms by tuning an applied magnetic field.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Alisdair O. G. Wallis , Roman V. Krems

Cold-atom interferometry is a powerful tool for high-precision measurements of the quantum properties of atoms, many-body interactions and gravity. Further enhancement of sensitivity and reduction of complexity of these devices are crucial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Jovana Petrovic , Ivan Herrera , Pietro Lombardi , Francesco S. Cataliotti

We experimentally demonstrate a multi-mode interferometer comprising a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{39}$K atoms trapped in a harmonic potential, where the interatomic interaction can be cancelled exploiting Feshbach resonances.…

A Ramsey-type interferometer is suggested, employing a cold trapped ion and two time-delayed off-resonant femtosecond laser pulses. The laser light couples to the molecular polarization anisotropy, inducing rotational wavepacket dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 J. Martin Berglund , Michael Drewsen , Christiane P. Koch