Orbital-resolved three-body recombination across a <i>p</i> -wave Feshbach resonance in ultracold <sup>6</sup> Li
We report precision, orbital-resolved measurements of three-body recombination near the 159 G<i>p</i>-wave Feshbach resonance in an ultracold gas of<sup>6</sup>Li atoms prepared in their lowest hyperfine state. Using a radio-frequency gated protocol that suppresses magnetic-field transients below the milligauss level, we resolve loss features associated with the|mℓ|=1andmℓ=0orbital projections. The measured three-body loss coefficient<i>L</i><sub>3</sub>is well captured by a thermally averaged cascade-recombination model, enabling extraction of the resonance splitting δ<i>B</i>and effective-range parameterke. At the lowest temperature, we obtainδB=7.6(3) mG andke=0.151(6)a0-1, both in quantitative agreement with coupled-channel theory. These results establish orbital-resolved three-body spectroscopy as a precision probe of<i>p</i>-wave scattering and provide a benchmark for microscopic models of resonant few-body loss.
Authors
- Le Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5262-2197)
- Tangqian Shu
- Sijia Peng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7506-6575)
- Z. P. Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2004-2420)
- Shuai Peng
- Jiaming Li
- Shaokun Liu Liu
Institutions
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/ae413a
- Primary Topic
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00