Ultracold three-body collisions

Yujun Wang, Blake Laing, and Fatima Anis

We have primarily studied three-body recombination, but are branching out ...

More to come!

Our publications on this subject

Theory

B.D. Esry, C.H. Greene, and J.P.Burke, Jr.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1751 (1999).

Experiment

T. Kraemer, et al., Nature 440, 315 (2006).

The calculations we did in 1999 were not for the Cs atoms used in the Innsbruck experiments.  So, the numbers don't agree, but the qualitative features are certainly the same!

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