Collisions of Ultracold Trapped Cesium Feshbach Molecules

Details Collisions of Ultracold Trapped Cesium Feshbach Molecules Collisions of Ultracold Trapped Cesium Feshbach Molecules

2009-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0935v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

To appear in Laser Physics, special issue in memoriam Prof. Vladilen S. Letokhov

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We study collisions in an optically trapped, pure sample of ultracold Cs$_2$ molecules in various internal states. The molecular gas is created by Feshbach association from a near-degenerate atomic gas, with adjustable temperatures in the nanokelvin range. We identify several narrow loss resonances, which point to the coupling to more complex molecular states and may be interpreted as Feshbach resonances in dimer-dimer interactions. Moreover, in some molecular states we observe a surprising temperature dependence in collisional loss. This shows that the situation cannot be understood in terms of the usual simple threshold behavior for inelastic two-body collisions. We interpret this observation as further evidence for a more complex molecular structure beyond the well-understood dimer physics.

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