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Abstract
  • A powerful set of universal relations, centered on a quantity called the contact, connects the strength of short-range two-body correlations to the thermodynamics of a many-body system with zero-range interactions. We report on measurements of the contact, using rf spectroscopy, for an ⁸⁵Rb atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). For bosons, the fact that contact spectroscopy can be used to probe the gas on short time scales is useful given the decreasing stability of BECs with increasing interactions. A complication is the added possibility, for bosons, of three-body interactions. In investigating this issue, we have located an Efimov resonance for ⁸⁵Rb atoms with loss measurements and thus determined the three-body interaction parameter. In our contact spectroscopy, in a region of observable beyond-mean-field effects, we find no measurable contribution from three-body physics.
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Date Issued
  • 2012-04-05
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Journal Issue/Number
  • 14
Journal Volume
  • 108
File Extent
  • 145305-1-145305-5
Ultima modifica
  • 2019-12-05
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DOI
  • 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.145305
ISSN
  • 0031-9007
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