Extreme Tunability of Interactions in a Li7 Bose-Einstein Condensate
Abstract
We use a Feshbach resonance to tune the scattering length a of a Bose-Einstein condensate of Li7 in the |F=1,mF=1⟩ state. Using the spatial extent of the trapped condensate, we extract a over a range spanning 7 decades from small attractive interactions to extremely strong repulsive interactions. The shallow zero crossing in the wing of the Feshbach resonance enables the determination of a as small as 0.01 Bohr radii. Evidence of the weak anisotropic magnetic dipole interaction is obtained by comparison with different trap geometries for small a.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.090402
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0811.4456
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvL.102i0402P
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Hh;
- 03.65.Db;
- 03.75.Nt;
- 67.85.Bc;
- Static properties of condensates;
- thermodynamical statistical and structural properties;
- Functional analytical methods;
- Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena;
- Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- Phys.Rev.Lett.102:090402,2009