TY - JOUR
T1 - Double species Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable interspecies interactions
AU - Thalhammer, G.
AU - Barontini, Giovanni
AU - De Sarlo, L.
AU - Catani, J.
AU - Minardi, F.
AU - Inguscio, M.
PY - 2008/5/29
Y1 - 2008/5/29
N2 - We produce Bose-Einstein condensates of two different species, Rb87 and K41, in an optical dipole trap in proximity of interspecies Feshbach resonances. We discover and characterize two Feshbach resonances, located around 35 and 79G, by observing the three-body losses and the elastic cross section. The narrower resonance is exploited to create a double species condensate with tunable interactions. Our system opens the way to the exploration of double species Mott insulators and, more in general, of the quantum phase diagram of the two-species Bose-Hubbard model.
AB - We produce Bose-Einstein condensates of two different species, Rb87 and K41, in an optical dipole trap in proximity of interspecies Feshbach resonances. We discover and characterize two Feshbach resonances, located around 35 and 79G, by observing the three-body losses and the elastic cross section. The narrower resonance is exploited to create a double species condensate with tunable interactions. Our system opens the way to the exploration of double species Mott insulators and, more in general, of the quantum phase diagram of the two-species Bose-Hubbard model.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.210402
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.210402
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44649114173
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 21
M1 - 210402
ER -