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Shaokun Liu Liu1, Zhekang Xu1, Shuai Peng1
1School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We report precision, orbital-resolved measurements of three-body recombination near the 159 Gp-wave Feshbach resonance in an ultracold gas of6Li atoms prepared in their lowest hyperfine state. Using a radio-frequency gated protocol that suppresses magnetic-field transients below the milligauss level, we resolve loss features associated with the|mℓ|=1andmℓ=0orbital projections. The measured three-body loss coefficientL3is well captured by a thermally averaged cascade-recombination model, enabling extraction of the resonance splitting δBand effective-range parameterke. At the lowest temperature, we obtainδB=7.6(3) mG andke=0.151(6)a0-1, both in quantitative agreement with coupled-channel theory. These results establish orbital-resolved three-body spectroscopy as a precision probe ofp-wave scattering and provide a benchmark for microscopic models of resonant few-body loss.
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