Skip to content

Precise determination of 6Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound molecules

M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, R. Geursen, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, P. S. Julienne

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0408673

Abstract

We employ radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound 6Li2 molecules to precisely determine the molecular binding energies and the energy splittings between molecular states for different magnetic fields. These measurements allow us to extract the interaction parameters of ultracold 6Li atoms based on a multi-channel quantum scattering model. We determine the singlet and triplet scattering lengths to be as=45.167(8)a0 and at=-2140(18)a0 (1 a0 = 0.0529177 nm), and the positions of the broad Feshbach resonances in the energetically lowest three s-wave scattering channels to be 83.41(15) mT, 69.04(5) mT, and 81.12(10) mT.

Create a lesson