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Published on: October 9, 2012
Observation of Efimov Universality across a Nonuniversal Feshbach Resonance in ^{39}K
Xin Xie1, Michael J Van de Graaff1, Roman Chapurin1
1JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, and Department of Physics, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
Abstract:
We study three-atom inelastic scattering in ultracold ^{39}K near a Feshbach resonance of intermediate coupling strength. The nonuniversal character of such resonance leads to an abnormally large Efimov absolute length scale and a relatively small effective range r_{e}, allowing the features of the ^{39}K Efimov spectrum to be better isolated from the short-range physics. Meticulous characterization of and correction for finite-temperature effects ensure high accuracy on the measurements of these features at large-magnitude scattering lengths. For a single Feshbach resonance, we unambiguously locate four distinct features in the Efimov structure. Three of these features form ratios that obey the Efimov universal scaling to within 10%, while the fourth feature, occurring at a value of scattering length closest to r_{e}, instead deviates from the universal value.
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