Probing many-body physics with a resonantly interacting Bose gas

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Abstract

By sweeping a resonantly interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) onto weak interactions, we are able to create a mixture of atoms and molecules. We realize a mixture of free atoms, Feshbach molecules and Efimov molecules, using loss rate measurements to distinguish these components. In particular, the creation of Efimov molecules suggests the presence of three-body correlations in the resonantly interacting BEC, revealing opportunities to study few- and many-body phenomena in a controlled system. We present further investigation into this possibility by studying the overall loss of the resonantly interacting BEC over two orders of magnitude in density.

Authors

  • Catherine Klauss

    University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA

  • Xin Xie

    University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA, JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder

  • Carlos Lopez-Abadia

    University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA

  • Jose d' Incao

    University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA, JILA, Dept. of Physics, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, and NIST, JILA, Dept. of Physics, Univ of Colorado, Boulder and NIST, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder; JILA

  • Eric Cornell

    University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder