Atom loss from Bose-Einstein condensates due to Feshbach resonance

Abstract

In recent experiments on Na Bose-Einstein condensates [S. Inouye et al, Nature 392, 151 (1998); J. Stenger et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2422 (1999)], large loss rates were observed when a time-varying magnetic field was used to tune a molecular Feshbach resonance state near the state of pairs of atoms belonging to the condensate many-body wavefunction. A mechanism is offered here to account for the observed losses, based on the deactivation of the resonant molecular state by interaction with a third condensate atom.

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