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Zhen Su1, Huan Yang1, Jin Cao1
1Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Science and CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai 201315, China; and Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China.
Abstract:
We have demonstrated the resonant control of the elastic scattering cross sections in the vicinity of Feshbach resonances between ^{23}Na^{40}K molecules and ^{40}K atoms by studying the thermalization between them. The elastic scattering cross sections vary by more than 2 orders of magnitude close to the resonance, and can be well described by an asymmetric Fano profile. The parameters that characterize the magnetically tunable s-wave scattering length are determined from the elastic scattering cross sections. The observation of resonantly controlled elastic scattering cross sections opens up the possibility to study strongly interacting atom-molecule mixtures and improve our understanding of the complex atom-molecule Feshbach resonances.
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