Above-threshold scattering about a Feshbach resonance for ultracold atoms in an optical collider

Milena S. J. Horvath, Ryan Thomas, Eite Tiesinga, Amita B. Deb and Niels Kjærgaard ()
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Milena S. J. Horvath: University of Otago
Ryan Thomas: University of Otago
Eite Tiesinga: National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland
Amita B. Deb: University of Otago
Niels Kjærgaard: University of Otago

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Ultracold atomic gases have realized numerous paradigms of condensed matter physics, where control over interactions has crucially been afforded by tunable Feshbach resonances. So far, the characterization of these Feshbach resonances has almost exclusively relied on experiments in the threshold regime near zero energy. Here, we use a laser-based collider to probe a narrow magnetic Feshbach resonance of rubidium above threshold. By measuring the overall atomic loss from colliding clouds as a function of magnetic field, we track the energy-dependent resonance position. At higher energy, our collider scheme broadens the loss feature, making the identification of the narrow resonance challenging. However, we observe that the collisions give rise to shifts in the center-of-mass positions of outgoing clouds. The shifts cross zero at the resonance and this allows us to accurately determine its location well above threshold. Our inferred resonance positions are in excellent agreement with theory.

Date: 2017
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