TY - JOUR
AU - Roman Chapurin
AU - Xin Xie
AU - Michael Van de Graaff
AU - Jared Popowski
AU - Jose D'Incao
AU - Paul Julienne
AU - Jun Ye
AU - Eric Cornell
AB - We perform precise studies of two- and three-body interactions near an intermediate-strength Feshbach resonance in <sup>39</sup>K at 33.5820(14) G. Precise measurement of dimer binding energies, spanning three orders of magnitude, enables the construction of a complete two-body coupled-channel model for determination of the scattering lengths with an unprecedented low uncertainty. Utilizing an accurate scattering length map, we measure the precise location of the Efimov ground state to test van der Waals universality. Precise control of the sample's temperature and density ensures that systematic effects on the Efimov trimer state are well understood. We measure the ground Efimov resonance location to be at -14.05(17) times the van der Waals length r<sub>vdW</sub>, significantly deviating from the value of -9.7r<sub>vdW</sub> predicted by van der Waals universality. We find that a refined multichannel three-body model, built on our measurement of two-body physics, can account for this difference and even successfully predict the Efimov inelasticity parameter η.
BT - Physical Review Letters
DA - 2019-12
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.233402
N2 - We perform precise studies of two- and three-body interactions near an intermediate-strength Feshbach resonance in <sup>39</sup>K at 33.5820(14) G. Precise measurement of dimer binding energies, spanning three orders of magnitude, enables the construction of a complete two-body coupled-channel model for determination of the scattering lengths with an unprecedented low uncertainty. Utilizing an accurate scattering length map, we measure the precise location of the Efimov ground state to test van der Waals universality. Precise control of the sample's temperature and density ensures that systematic effects on the Efimov trimer state are well understood. We measure the ground Efimov resonance location to be at -14.05(17) times the van der Waals length r<sub>vdW</sub>, significantly deviating from the value of -9.7r<sub>vdW</sub> predicted by van der Waals universality. We find that a refined multichannel three-body model, built on our measurement of two-body physics, can account for this difference and even successfully predict the Efimov inelasticity parameter η.
PY - 2019
EP - 233402
T2 - Physical Review Letters
TI - Precision Test of the Limits to Universality in Few-Body Physics
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.233402
VL - 123
SN - 0031-9007
ER -