Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of a Mass-Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi Mixture: Measuring Atom-Dimer Interactions

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Abstract

We use radio-frequency spectroscopy to investigate a mixture of $^{40}$K atoms and $^{6}$Li$^{40}$K Feshbach molecules on the repulsive side of a $^{6}$Li-$^{40}$K Fermi-Fermi interspecies Feshbach resonance. The shifts in the peak positions in our spectra indicate an attractive interaction between the $^{40}$K atoms and $^{6}$Li$^{40}$K dimers, related to a $p$-wave atom-dimer scattering resonance. The measured attraction agrees well with a mean field description of the atom-molecule interaction, even in the strongly-interacting regime. Strong tails in our spectra point to the importance of momentum corrections to the wavefunction of the interacting K atoms and provide information about the excited states of our system.

*Funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF within SFB FoQuS

Authors

  • Marko Cetina

    • IQOQI, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Innsbruck, Austria
    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Michael Jag

    • Inst. fuer Experimentalphysik, Universitaet Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Matteo Zaccanti

    • IQOQI, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Innsbruck, Austria
    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Rianne Lous

    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Jesper Levinsen

    • Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
  • Dmitry Petrov

    • LPTMS, CNRS, Universit Paris Sud, Orsay, France
    • LPTMS, CNRS, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay, France
  • Florian Schreck

    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Rudolf Grimm

    • Institut f\"ur Experimentalphysik und Zentrum f\"ur Quantenphysik, Universit\"at Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria