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Tuning p-wave interactions in an ultracold Fermi gas of atoms

C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, D. S. Jin

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0209071

Abstract

We have measured a p-wave Feshbach resonance in a single-component, ultracold Fermi gas of potassium atoms. We have used this resonance to enhance the normally suppressed p-wave collision cross-section to values larger than the background s-wave cross-section between potassium atoms in different spin-states. In addition to the modification of two-body elastic processes, the resonance dramatically enhances three-body inelastic collisional loss.

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