Universal four-boson states in ultracold molecular gases: Resonant effects in dimer-dimer collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  D'incao, J P ^a,b   Von Stecher, J ^a   Greene, Chris H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER-DIMER INTERACTION; EFIMOV TRIMERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FORMATION MECHANISM; INTERCONVERSIONS; MOLECULAR GAS; REARRANGEMENT PROCESS; REARRANGEMENT REACTIONS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; RESONANT EFFECT; SCATTERING LENGTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TUNABILITIES; ULTRA-COLD; ULTRACOLD DIMERS; ULTRACOLD GAS;

BOSONS; OLIGOMERS;

GAS FUEL ANALYSIS;

EID: 68749096071     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.033004     Document Type: Article

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