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Weakly bound dimers of fermionic atoms

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss the behavior of weakly bound bosonic dimers formed in a cold Fermi gas at a large positive scattering length aa for the interspecies interaction. We find the exact solution for the dimer-dimer elastic scattering and obtain a strong decrease of their collisional relaxation and decay with increasing aa. The large ratio of the elastic to inelastic rate is promising for achieving Bose-Einstein condensation of the dimers and cooling the condensed gas to very low temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309010,
  title  = {Weakly bound dimers of fermionic atoms},
  author = {D. S. Petrov and C. Salomon and G. V. Shlyapnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309010},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, no figures

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