Enhanced sensitivity to fundamental constants in ultracold atomic and molecular systems near Feshbach resonances |
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Authors: | Chin Cheng Flambaum V V |
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Affiliation: | James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. |
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Abstract: | Scattering length, which can be measured in Bose-Einstein condensate and Feshbach molecule experiments, is extremely sensitive to the variation of fundamental constants, in particular, the electron-to-proton mass ratio (m(e)/m(p) or m(e)/Lambda(QCD), where Lambda(QCD), is the QCD scale). Based on single- and two-channel scattering models, we show how the variation of the mass ratio propagates to the scattering length. Our results suggest that variation of m(e)/m(p) on the level of 10(-11) - 10(-14) on the level of can be detected near a narrow magnetic or an optical Feshbach resonance by monitoring the scattering length on the 1% level. Derived formulas may also be used to estimate the isotopic shift of the scattering length. |
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