Lifetime of the Bose Gas with Resonant Interactions

We study the lifetime of a Bose gas at and around unitarity using a Feshbach resonance in lithium~7. At unitarity, we measure the temperature dependence of the three-body decay coefficient $L_{3}$. Our data follow a $L_3\,{=}\,\lambda_{3} / T^{2}$ law with $\lambda_{3}\,{=}\,2.5(3){\rm stat}(6){sys}\times10^{-20} (\muK)^2cm^6s^{-1}$ and are in good agreement with our analytical result based on the zero-range theory. Varying the scattering length $a$ at fixed temperature, we investigate the crossover between the finite-temperature unitary region and the previously studied regime where $|a|$ is smaller than the thermal wavelength. We find that $L_{3}$ is continuous across resonance, and over the whole $a\,{<}\,0$ range our data quantitatively agree with our calculation.

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Author Rem, B. S., Grier, A. T., Ferrier-Barbut, I., Eismann, U., Langen, T., Navon, N., Khaykovich, L., Werner, Felix, Petrov, Dmitry, Chevy, F., Salomon, C.
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Created May 29, 2026, 18:57 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00768038
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contributor Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Lhomond)) ; Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS) ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Rem, B. S.
date 2012-12-20T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2026-04-09T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1212.5274
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