| Title | Feshbach resonances in p-wave three-body recombination within Fermi-Fermi mixtures of open-shell 6Li and closed-shell 173Yb atoms |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Green, A, Li, H, Toh, JHui See, Tang, X, McCormick, K, Li, M, Tiesinga, E, Kotochigova, S, Gupta, S |
| Date Published | 12/10/2019 |
| Abstract | We report on observations and modeling of interspecies magnetic Feshbach resonances in dilute ultracold mixtures of open-shell alkali-metal 6Li and closed-shell 173Yb atoms with temperatures just above quantum degeneracy for both fermionic species. Resonances are located by detecting magnetic-field-dependent atom loss due to three-body recombination. We resolve closely-located resonances that originate from a weak separation-dependent hyperfine coupling between the electronic spin of 6Li and the nuclear spin of 173Yb, and confirm their magnetic field spacing by ab initio electronic-structure calculations. Through quantitative comparisons of theoretical atom-loss profiles and experimental data at various temperatures between 1 μK and 20 μK, we show that three-body recombination in fermionic mixtures has a p-wave Wigner threshold behavior leading to characteristic asymmetric loss profiles. Such resonances can be applied towards the formation of ultracold doublet ground-state molecules and quantum simulation of superfluid p-wave pairing. |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04874 |
