Broad Feshbach Resonance with a Large Background Scattering Length in a Fermionic Atom-Molecule Mixture
We report the observation of a broad magnetic Feshbach resonance with a large background scattering length in an ultracold fermionic mixture of ^{23}Na^{40}K molecules and ^{40}K atoms, with both species prepared in their lowest hyperfine states. The Feshbach resonance is characterized by measuring resonantly enhanced loss rates and elastic scattering cross sections via cross-species thermalization. The large background scattering length can drive the atom-molecule mixture into the hydrodynamic regime when the magnetic field is far from the resonance. We observe that the center-of-mass motions of the atoms and molecules are phase locked and oscillate with a common frequency due to hydrodynamic drag effects. This broad atom-molecule Feshbach resonance with its large background scattering length opens up a new avenue toward studying strongly interacting fermionic gases with mass imbalance.
Authors
- Bo Zhao
- Ting Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2601-2283)
- H. X. Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9160-8385)
- J. Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9590-244X)
- Jun Rui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-4604)
- Zhen Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-9227)
- Jian-Wei Pan
- Bo-Yuan Wang
- Tong-Hui Shou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9435-5444)
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Hefei University (CN)
- Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale (CN)
- Microscale (United States) (US)
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (CN)
- Quantum Technologies (Sweden) (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/95nd-4tzv
- Primary Topic
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Science and Technology Major Project