Collisions between tunable halo dimers:: Exploring an elementary four-body process with identical bosons

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Ferlaino, F. [1 ,2 ]
Knoop, S. [1 ,2 ]
Mark, M. [1 ,2 ]
Berninger, M. [1 ,2 ]
Schoebel, H. [1 ,2 ]
Naegerl, H. -C. [1 ,2 ]
Grimm, R. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
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[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Expt Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[2] Univ Innsbruck, Zentrum Quantenphys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[3] Austrian Acad Sci, Inst Quantenopt & Quanteninformat, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.023201
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We study inelastic collisions in a pure, trapped sample of Feshbach molecules made of bosonic cesium atoms in the quantum halo regime. We measure the relaxation rate coefficient for decay to lower-lying molecular states and study the dependence on scattering length and temperature. We identify a pronounced loss minimum with varying scattering length along with a further suppression of loss with decreasing temperature. Our observations provide insight into the physics of a few-body quantum system that consists of four identical bosons at large values of the two-body scattering length.
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