Collisions and atom loss in ultracold, strongly interacting Na-Li mixtures

ORAL

Abstract

We report on our progress in the production of ultracold heteronuclear molecules and in the studies of strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixtures. Ultracold gases of $^{6}$Li and $^{23}$Na in their lowest hyperfine states are prepared in an optical dipole trap near the heteronuclear Feshbach resonance at 796~G, where interesting phenomena such as heteronuclear molecule formation and phase separation could be explored. We present results on $^{6}$Li-$^{23}$Na collisions and atom losses in the system.

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Authors

  • Jae H. Choi

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Caleb A. Christensen

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
    • MIT/Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Gyu-Boong Jo

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Ye-ryoung Lee

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Tout Wang

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Tony H. Kim

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • David E. Pritchard

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • Wolfgang Ketterle

    • MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms; Dept. of Physics, MIT