Extreme Tunability of Interactions in a Li7 Bose-Einstein Condensate
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We use a Feshbach resonance to tune the scattering length a of a Bose-Einstein condensate of Li7 in the |F=1,mF=1⟩ state. Using the spatial extent of the trapped condensate, we extract a over a range spanning 7 decades from small attractive interactions to extremely strong repulsive interactions. The shallow zero crossing in the wing of the Feshbach resonance enables the determination of a as small as 0.01 Bohr radii. Evidence of the weak anisotropic magnetic dipole interaction is obtained by comparison with different trap geometries for small a.
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Pollack, S.E., Dries, D., Junker, M., et al.. "Extreme Tunability of Interactions in a Li7 Bose-Einstein Condensate." Physical Review Letters, 102, no. 9 (2009) American Physical Society: 90402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.090402.