Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-12-01
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
5 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
A powerful set of universal relations, centered on a quantity called the contact, connects the strength of short-range two-body correlations to the thermodynamics of a many-body system with delta-function interactions. We report on measurements of the contact, using RF spectroscopy, for an $^{85}$Rb atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). For bosons, the fact that contact spectroscopy can be used to probe the gas on short timescales is useful given the decreasing stability of BECs with increasing interactions. A complication is the added possibility, for bosons, of three-body interactions. In investigating this issue, we have located an Efimov resonance for $^{85}$Rb atoms with loss measurements and thus determined the three-body interaction parameter. In our contact spectroscopy, in a region of observable beyond-mean-field effects, we find no measurable contribution from three-body physics.
Cornell Eric A.
Jin Deborah S.
Makotyn P.
Pino J. M.
Wild R. J.
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