| Literature DB >> 18764179 |
F Ferlaino1, S Knoop, M Mark, M Berninger, H Schöbel, H-C Nägerl, R Grimm.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID: 18764179 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.023201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161