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C Ospelkaus1, S Ospelkaus, K Sengstock
1Institut für Laserphysik, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We have studied effects of interspecies attraction in a Fermi-Bose mixture over a large regime of particle numbers in the 40K-87Rb system. We report on the observation of a mean-field driven collapse at critical particle numbers of 1.2 x 10(6) 87Rb atoms in the condensate and 7.5 x 10(5) 40K atoms consistent with mean-field theory for a scattering length of aFB = -284a(0). For large overcritical particle numbers, we see evidence for revivals of the collapse. Part of our detailed study of the decay dynamics and mechanisms is a measurement of the (87Rb- 87Rb- 40K) three-body loss coefficient K3 = (2.8 +/- 1.1) x 10(-28) cm6/s, which is an important parameter for dynamical studies of the system.
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