Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Tuning P-Wave Interactions in an Ultracold Fermi Gas of Atoms

Published

Author(s)

C A. Regal, J L. Ticknor, J L. Bohn, D S. Jin

Abstract

We have measured a p-wave Feshbach resonance in a single-component, ultracold Fermi gas of 40K atoms. We have used this resonance to enhance the normally suppressed p-wave collision cross-section to values larger than thebackground s-wave cross-section between 40K atoms in different spin-states. In addition to the modification of two-body elastic processes, the resonance dramatically enhances three-body inelastic colulsional loss.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
90
Issue
no. 5

Keywords

cold collision, fermions, feshbach resonance

Citation

Regal, C. , Ticknor, J. , Bohn, J. and Jin, D. (2003), Tuning P-Wave Interactions in an Ultracold Fermi Gas of Atoms, Physical Review Letters (Accessed December 14, 2024)

Issues

If you have any questions about this publication or are having problems accessing it, please contact reflib@nist.gov.

Created January 31, 2003, Updated October 12, 2021