36 research outputs found
All-optical production of 7Li Bose-Einstein condensation using Feshbach resonances
We show an all-optical method of making 7Li condensate using tunability of
the scattering length in the proximity of a Feshbach resonance. We report the
observation of two new Feshbach resonances on |F = 1;mF = 0> state. The narrow
(broad) resonance of 7 G (34 G) width is detected at 831 +- 4 G (884 +4 -13 G).
Position of the scattering length zero crossing between the resonances is found
at 836 +- 4 G. The broad resonance is shown to be favorable for run away
evaporation which we perform in a crossed-beam optical dipole trap. Starting
directly form the phase space density of a magneto-optical trap we observe a
Bose-Einstein condensation threshold in less than 3 s of forced evaporation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Deviation from one-dimensionality in stationary properties and collisional dynamics of matter-wave solitons
By means of analytical and numerical methods, we study how the residual
three-dimensionality affects dynamics of solitons in an attractive
Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a cigar-shaped trap. Based on an effective
1D Gross-Pitaevskii equation that includes an additional quintic self-focusing
term, generated by the tight transverse confinement, we find a family of exact
one-soliton solutions and demonstrate stability of the entire family, despite
the possibility of collapse in the 1D equation with the quintic self-focusing
nonlinearity. Simulating collisions between two solitons in the same setting,
we find a critical velocity, , below which merger of identical in-phase
solitons is observed. Dependence of on the strength of the transverse
confinement and number of atoms in the solitons is predicted by means of the
perturbation theory and investigated in direct simulations. Symmetry breaking
in collisions of identical solitons with a nonzero phase difference is also
shown in simulations and qualitatively explained by means of an analytical
approximation.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Universal Dimer in a Collisionally Opaque Medium: Experimental Observables and Efimov Resonances
A universal dimer is subject to secondary collisions with atoms when formed
in a cloud of ultracold atoms via three-body recombination. We show that in a
collisionally opaque medium, the value of the scattering length that results in
the maximum number of secondary collisions may not correspond to the Efimov
resonance at the atom-dimer threshold and thus can not be automatically
associated with it. This result explains a number of controversies in recent
experimental results on universal three-body states and supports the emerging
evidence for the significant finite range corrections to the first excited
Efimov energy level.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Three-body recombination at vanishing scattering lengths in an ultracold Bose gas
We report on measurements of three-body recombination rates in an ultracold
gas of Li atoms in the extremely nonuniversal regime where the two-body
scattering length vanishes. We show that the rate is well defined and can be
described by two-body parameters only: the scattering length and the
effective range . We find the rate to be energy independent, and, by
connecting our results with previously reported measurements in the universal
limit, we cover the behavior of the three-body recombination in the whole range
from weak to strong two-body interactions. We identify a nontrivial magnetic
field value in the nonuniversal regime where the rate should be strongly
reduced.Comment: Version with enhanced supplemental material
Nuclear-spin-independent short-range three-body physics in ultracold atoms
We investigate three-body recombination loss across a Feshbach resonance in a
gas of ultracold 7Li atoms prepared in the absolute ground state and perform a
comparison with previously reported results of a different nuclear-spin state
[N. Gross et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 163202, (2009)]. We extend the
previously reported universality in three-body recombination loss across a
Feshbach resonance to the absolute ground state. We show that the positions and
widths of recombination minima and Efimov resonances are identical for both
states which indicates that the short-range physics is nuclear-spin
independent.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure