Effects of magnetic dipole-dipole interactions in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates with tunable s-wave interactions

Abstract

The s-wave interaction is usually the dominant form of interactions in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Recently, Feshbach resonances have been employed to reduce the strength of the s-wave interaction in many atomic speicies. This opens the possibilities to study magnetic dipole-dipole interactions (MDDI) in BECs, where the novel physics resulting from long-range and anisotropic dipolar interactions can be explored. Using a variational method, we study the effect of MDDI on the statics and dynamics of atomic BECs with tunable s-wave interactions. We benchmark our calculation against previously observed MDDI effects in ${}^{52}$Cr with excellent agreement, and predict new effects that should be promising to observe experimentally. A parameter of magnetic Feshbach resonances, ${\epsilon }_{dd,\text{max}}$, is used to quantitatively indicate the feasibility of experimentally observing MDDI effects in different atomic species. We find that strong MDDI effects should be observable in both in-trap and time-of-flight behaviors for the alkali BECs of ${}^7$Li, ${}^{39}$K, and ${}^{133}$Cs. Our results provide a helpful guide for experimentalists to realize and study atomic dipolar quantum gases.

10 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables

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