Observation of Efimov Molecules Created from a Resonantly Interacting Bose Gas.
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Klauss, Catherine E
Xie, Xin
Lopez-Abadia, Carlos
D'Incao, José P
Hadzibabic, Zoran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0118-9285
Abstract
We convert a strongly interacting ultracold Bose gas into a mixture of atoms and molecules by sweeping the interactions from resonant to weak. By analyzing the decay dynamics of the molecular gas, we show that in addition to Feshbach dimers it contains Efimov trimers. Typically around 8% of the total atomic population is bound into trimers, identified by their density-independent lifetime of about 100 μs. The lifetime of the Feshbach dimers shows a density dependence due to inelastic atom-dimer collisions, in agreement with theoretical calculations. We also vary the density of the gas across a factor of 250 and investigate the corresponding atom loss rate at the interaction resonance.
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cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, quant-ph
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Phys Rev Lett
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0031-9007
1079-7114
1079-7114
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119
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N011759/1)