Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-07-21
Nature Physics 5, 227 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
12 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1038/nphys1203
The field of few-body physics has originally been motivated by understanding nuclear matter. New model systems to experimentally explore few-body quantum systems can now be realized in ultracold gases with tunable interactions. Albeit the vastly different energy regimes of ultracold and nuclear matter (peV as compared to MeV), few-body phenomena are universal for near-resonant two-body interactions. Efimov states represent a paradigm for universal three-body states, and evidence for their existence has been obtained in measurements of three-body recombination in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms. Interacting samples of halo dimers can provide further information on universal few-body phenomena. Here we study interactions in an optically trapped mixture of such halo dimers with atoms, realized in a caesium gas at nanokelvin temperatures. We observe an atom-dimer scattering resonance, which we interpret as being due to a trimer state hitting the atom-dimer threshold. We discuss the close relation of this observation to Efimov's scenario, and in particular to atom-dimer Efimov resonances.
Berninger Martin
Ferlaino Francesca
Grimm Rudolf
Knoop Steven
Mark Michael
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