Resonant magnetic field control of elastic scattering in cold 85Rb

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作者
Roberts, JL [1 ]
Claussen, NR
Burke, JP
Greene, CH
Cornell, EA
Wieman, CE
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[1] Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5109
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O4 [物理学];
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A magnetic field-dependent Feshbach resonance has been observed in the elastic scattering collision rate between atoms in the F = 2, M = -2 state of Rb-85. Changing the magnetic field by several Gauss caused the collision rate to vary by a factor of 10(4), and the sign of the scattering length could be reversed. The resonance peak is at 155.2(4) G and its width is 11.6(5) G. From these results we extract much improved values for the three quantities that characterize the interaction potential: The van der Waals coefficient C-6, the singlet scattering length a(S), and the tripler scattering length a(T). [S0031-9007(98)07904-6].
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