• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.86.032705
• Corpus ID: 119219779

Dynamics of Feshbach molecules in an ultracold three-component mixture

@article{Khramov2012DynamicsOF,
  title={Dynamics of Feshbach molecules in an ultracold three-component mixture},
  author={Alexander Khramov and Anders H. Hansen and Alan O. Jamison and William H. Dowd and S. P. Gupta},
  journal={Physical Review A},
  year={2012},
  volume={86},
  pages={032705}
}

• A. Khramov, A. H. Hansen, +2 authors S. Gupta
• Published 9 July 2012
• Physics
• Physical Review A

We present investigations of the formation rate and collisional stability of lithium Feshbach molecules in an ultracold three-component mixture composed of two resonantly interacting fermionic ${}^{6}$Li spin states and bosonic ${}^{174}$Yb. We observe long molecule lifetimes ($g100$ ms) even in the presence of a large ytterbium bath and extract reaction rate coefficients of the system. We find good collisional stability of the mixture in the unitary regime, opening new possibilities for studies and probes of strongly interacting quantum gases in contact with a bath species.