Three-body decay of a rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate

J. Soding, D. Guery-Odelin, P. Desbiolles +3

We have measured the three-body decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium (${}^{87}$Rb) atoms prepared in the doubly polarized ground state $F=m_F=2$. Our data are taken for a…