Nuclear-Spin-Independent Short-Range Three-Body Physics in Ultracold Atoms

Journal Article · Fri Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.105.103203· OSTI ID:21470920

Gross, Noam; Shotan, Zav; Khaykovich, Lev ^[1]; Kokkelmans, Servaas ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900 (Israel)
2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Post Office Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven (Netherlands)

We investigate three-body recombination loss across a Feshbach resonance in a gas of ultracold {sup 7}Li atoms prepared in the absolute ground state and perform a comparison with previously reported results of a different nuclear-spin state [N. Gross et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163202 (2009)]. We extend the previously reported universality in three-body recombination loss across a Feshbach resonance to the absolute ground state. We show that the positions and widths of recombination minima and Efimov resonances are identical for both states which indicates that the short-range physics is nuclear-spin independent.

• OSTI ID: 21470920
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.103203; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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