Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases

C Chin, R Grimm, P Julienne, E Tiesinga - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in
ultracold quantum gases. They have found numerous experimental applications, opening up …

Production of cold molecules via magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances

T Köhler, K Góral, PS Julienne - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances were employed to associate cold diatomic
molecules in a series of experiments involving both atomic Bose and two-spin-component …

Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms

T Kraemer, M Mark, P Waldburger, JG Danzl, C Chin… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract Systems of three interacting particles are notorious for their complex physical
behaviour. A landmark theoretical result in few-body quantum physics is Efimov's prediction …

The cold atom Hubbard toolbox

D Jaksch, P Zoller - Annals of physics, 2005 - Elsevier
We review recent theoretical advances in cold atom physics concentrating on strongly
correlated cold atoms in optical lattices. We discuss recently developed quantum optical …

Atom-Atom Scattering under Cylindrical Harmonic Confinement: Numerical<? format?> and Analytic Studies of the Confinement Induced Resonance

T Bergeman, MG Moore, M Olshanii - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
It was recently predicted [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 938 (1998) PRLTAO 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett. 81.938] that atom-atom scattering under transverse harmonic …

General relations for quantum gases in two and three dimensions: Two-component fermions

F Werner, Y Castin - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
We derive exact general relations between various observables for N spin-1/2 fermions with
zero-range or short-range interactions, in continuous space or on a lattice, in two or three …

Direct observation of coherent interorbital spin-exchange dynamics

G Cappellini, M Mancini, G Pagano, P Lombardi, L Livi… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report on the first direct observation of fast spin-exchange coherent oscillations between
different long-lived electronic orbitals of ultracold Yb 173 fermions. We measure, in a model …

Few-body physics with ultracold atomic and molecular systems in traps

D Blume - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Few-body physics has played a prominent role in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics
since the early days of quantum mechanics. It is now possible—thanks to tremendous …

Universal rate constants for reactive collisions of ultracold molecules

Z Idziaszek, PS Julienne - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
A simple quantum-defect model gives analytic expressions for the complex scattering length
and threshold collision rates of ultracold molecules. If the probability of reaction in the short …

Molecules of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

T Stöferle, H Moritz, K Günter, M Köhl, T Esslinger - Physical Review Letters, 2006 - APS
We create molecules from fermionic atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice using a
Feshbach resonance. In the limit of low tunneling, the individual wells can be regarded as …