Enhanced Dimer Relaxation in an Atomic/Molecular BEC
Abstract
We derive a universal formula for the rate constant β for relaxation of a shallow dimer into deeply-bound diatomic molecules in the case of atoms with a large scattering length a. We show that β is determined by a and by two 3-body parameters that also determine the binding energies and widths of Efimov states. The rate constant β scales like a/m near the resonance, but the coefficient is a periodic function of ln(a) that may have resonant enhancement at values of a that differ by multiples of 22.7.
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