Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance

J. Levinsen 1, 2, D. S. Petrov 1, 3

European Physical Journal D 65 (2011) 67-82

We develop a diagrammatic approach for solving few-body problems in heteronuclear fermionic mixtures near a narrow interspecies Feshbach resonance. We calculate s-, p-, and d-wave phaseshifts for the scattering of an atom by a weakly-bound dimer. The fermionic statistics of atoms and the composite nature of the dimer lead to a strong angular momentum dependence of the atom-dimer interaction, which manifests itself in a peculiar interference of the scattered s- and p-waves. This effect strengthens with the mass ratio and is remarkably pronounced in 40K-(40K-6Li) atom-dimer collisions. We calculate the scattering length for two dimers formed near a narrow interspecies resonance. Finally, we discuss the collisional relaxation of the dimers to deeply bound states and evaluate the corresponding rate constant as a function of the detuning and collision energy.

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
    CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud
  • 2. TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory,
    Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge
  • 3. National Research Centre « Kurchatov Institute » (NRC KI),
    University of Moscow
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