Experiments to Control Atom Number and Phase-Space Density in ...
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epresents the energetically open channel, also called the entrance channel. The second<br />
potential, VC, is known as the closed channel. This potential (VC) can support a bound<br />
molecular state near the threshold of the entrance channel.<br />
Energy<br />
0<br />
V C (R)<br />
V bg (R)<br />
closed channel<br />
E C E<br />
entrance channel<br />
a<strong>to</strong>mic separation R<br />
Figure 2.11: Two channel model for a Feshbach resonance. Consider two a<strong>to</strong>ms scatter<strong>in</strong>g<br />
with energy E <strong>and</strong> the existence of a closed channel VC that can support a bound state<br />
with energy EC. If resonant coupl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>to</strong> the closed channel exists, for example through<br />
hyperf<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>teractions, the phenomenon of a Feshbach resonance occurs. For cold a<strong>to</strong>ms,<br />
where E → 0, resonant coupl<strong>in</strong>g can be realized by tun<strong>in</strong>g EC <strong>to</strong>wards zero by means of<br />
an external magnetic field, if the magnetic moments of the entrance <strong>and</strong> closed channels<br />
differ.<br />
When the energy of the bound state EC approaches the energy of the scatter<strong>in</strong>g<br />
state of the entrance channel, small <strong>in</strong>teractions, for example hyperf<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>teractions, lead<br />
<strong>to</strong> a strong mix<strong>in</strong>g between the two channels <strong>and</strong> a Feshbach resonance occurs, see figure<br />
2.12. For cold a<strong>to</strong>ms, where E → 0, resonant coupl<strong>in</strong>g can be realized by tun<strong>in</strong>g EC<br />
<strong>to</strong>wards zero by means of an external magnetic field, if the magnetic moments of the<br />
entrance <strong>and</strong> closed channels differ.<br />
In case of a magnetically tuned Feshbach resonance the s-wave scatter<strong>in</strong>g length<br />
can be described by a simple model [31],<br />
as(B) = abg<br />
<br />
1− ∆<br />
<br />
, (2.18)<br />
B −B0<br />
where abg is the background scatter<strong>in</strong>g length, B0 describes the resonance position <strong>and</strong><br />
the parameter ∆ describes the width of the resonance.<br />
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