Lifetime of molecule-atom mixtures near a Feshbach resonance in 40K

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作者
Regal, CA [1 ]
Greiner, M
Jin, DS
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[1] Univ Colorado, Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083201
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report a dramatic magnetic-field dependence in the lifetime of trapped, ultracold diatomic molecules created through an s-wave Feshbach resonance between fermionic atoms. The molecule lifetime increases from less than 1 ms away from the Feshbach resonance to greater than 100 ms near resonance. We also have measured the trapped atom lifetime as a function of magnetic field near the Feshbach resonance; we find that the atom loss is more pronounced on the side of the resonance containing the molecular bound state.
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