Lifetime of the Bose gas with resonant interactions

B. S. Rem; A. T. Grier; I. Ferrier-Barbut; U. Eismann; T. Langen; N. Navon; L. Khaykovich; F. Werner; D. S. Petrov; F. Chevy; C. Salomon

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.163202

Lifetime of the Bose gas with resonant interactions

B. S. Rem
, A. T. Grier
, I. Ferrier-Barbut
, U. Eismann
, T. Langen
, N. Navon
, L. Khaykovich
, F. Werner
, D. S. Petrov
, F. Chevy
, C. Salomon

École Polytechnique

Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel
PSL research University & IPSL
TU Wien - Atominstitut
Department of Physics
Bar-Ilan University
Université Paris-Saclay
Russian Research Center
Kurchatov Institute

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Abstract

We study the lifetime of a Bose gas at and around unitarity using a Feshbach resonance in lithium 7. At unitarity, we measure the temperature dependence of the three-body decay coefficient L₃. Our data follow a L₃=λ₃/T2 law with λ₃=2.5(3) _stat(6)_syst×10^-20 (μK)2 cm6 s ^-1 and are in good agreement with our analytical result based on zero-range theory. Varying the scattering length a at fixed temperature, we investigate the crossover between the finite-temperature unitary region and the previously studied regime where |a| is smaller than the thermal wavelength. We find that L₃ is continuous across the resonance, and over the whole a<0 range our data quantitatively agree with our calculation.

Original language	English
Article number	163202
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	110
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.163202
Publication status	Published - 16 Apr 2013

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