Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Gases

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Abstract

Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in ultracold quantum gases. They have found numerous experimental applications, opening up the way to important breakthroughs. This Review broadly covers the phenomenon of Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases and their main applications. This includes the theoretical background and models for the description of Feshbach resonances, the experimental methods to find and characterize the resonances, a discussion of the main properties of resonances in various atomic species and mixed species systems, and an overview of key experiments with atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, degenerate Fermi gases, and ultracold molecules. This Review has been submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics.

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Authors

  • Eite Tiesinga

    NIST, JQI/NIST, JQI / NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Cheng Chin

    Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, University of Chicago

  • Rudolf Grimm

    IQOQI, Innsbruck, Inst. of Experimental Physics and Center for Quantum Physics, Univ. Innsbruck, Inst. for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Acad. of Science, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

  • Paul Julienne

    JQI/NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology