Three-body recombination at large scattering lengths in an ultracold atomic gas -: art. no. 123201

被引：198

作者：

Weber, T ^{[1
]}

Herbig, J ^{[1
]}

Mark, M ^{[1
]}

Nägerl, HC ^{[1
]}

Grimm, R ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Expt Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2003年 / 91卷 / 12期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.123201

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We study three-body recombination in an optically trapped ultracold gas of cesium atoms with precise magnetic control of the s-wave scattering length a. At large positive values of a, we measure the dependence of the rate coefficient on a and confirm the theoretically predicted scaling proportional to a(4). Evidence of recombination heating indicates the formation of very weakly bound molecules in the last bound energy level.

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