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Weakly Bound Dimers of Fermionic Atoms

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: We discuss the behavior of weakly bound bosonic dimers formed in a two-component cold Fermi gas at a large positive scattering length a for the interspecies interaction. We find the exact solution for the dimer-dimer elastic scattering and obtain a strong decrease of their collisional relaxation and decay with increasing a. The large ratio of the elastic to inelastic rate is promising for achieving Bose-Einstein condensation of the dimers and cooling the condensed gas to very low temperatures.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.090404

Authors: D. S. Petrov, C. Salomon, G. V. Shlyapnikov

Institutions: Kurchatov Institute, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Language: English

Topic: Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2071870789

FWCI: 40.81

Cites: 37

Cited by: 685

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