Optical tuning of the scattering length of cold alkaline earth atoms

Abstract

It is possible to tune the scattering length for the collision of ultra-cold 1S0 ground state alkaline-earth atoms using an optical Feshbach resonance. This is achieved with a laser far detuned from an excited molecular level near the frequency of the atomic intercombination 1S0--3P1 transition. Simple resonant scattering theory, illustrated by the example of 40Ca, allows an estimate of the magnitude of the effect. Unlike alkali metal species, large changes of the scattering length are possible while atom loss remains small, because of the very narrow line width of the molecular photoassociation transition. This raises prospects for control of atomic interactions for a system without magnetically tunable Feshbach resonance levels.

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• Observation of resonance condensation of fermionic atom pairs
• Tuning the scattering length with an optically induced Feshbach resonance
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• Adiabatic association of ultracold molecules via magnetic field tunable interactions
• Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: interplay with open-channel resonances
• Experimental study of the Ca2 1S+1S asymptote
• Photoassociation spectroscopy of cold alkaline earth atoms near the intercombination line
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