Multi-channel scattering and Feshbach resonances: Effective theory, phenomenology, and many-body effects

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2005-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501407v2

Phys.Rev. A71 (2005) 052713

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

10 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected. Accepted for PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052713

A low energy effective theory based on a microscopic multi-channel description of the atom-atom interaction is derived for the scattering of alkali atoms in different hyperfine states. This theory describes all scattering properties, including medium effects, in terms of the singlet and triplet scattering lengths and the range of the atom-atom potential and provides a link between a microscopic description of Feshbach scattering and more phenomenological approaches. It permits the calculation of medium effects on the resonance coming from the occupation of closed channel states. The examination of such effects are demonstrated to be of particular relevance to an experimentally important Feshbach resonance for $^{40}$K atoms. We analyze a recent rethermalization rate experiment on $^{40}$K and demonstrate that a measurement of the temperature dependence of this rate can determine the magnetic moment of the Feshbach molecule. Finally, the energy dependence of the Feshbach interaction is shown to introduce a negative effective range inversely proportional to the width of the resonance. Since our theory is based on a microscopic multi-channel picture, it allows the explicit calculation of corrections to commonly used approximations such as the neglect of the effective range and the treatment of the Feshbach molecule as a point boson.

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