Collisions between tunable halo dimers: exploring an elementary four-body process with identical bosons.

نویسندگان

  • F Ferlaino
  • S Knoop
  • M Mark
  • M Berninger
  • H Schöbel
  • H-C Nägerl
  • R Grimm
چکیده

We study inelastic collisions in a pure, trapped sample of Feshbach molecules made of bosonic cesium atoms in the quantum halo regime. We measure the relaxation rate coefficient for decay to lower-lying molecular states and study the dependence on scattering length and temperature. We identify a pronounced loss minimum with varying scattering length along with a further suppression of loss with decreasing temperature. Our observations provide insight into the physics of a few-body quantum system that consists of four identical bosons at large values of the two-body scattering length.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 101 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008