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Theory of confinement-induced interlayer molecular resonances

Márton Kanász-Nagy, Eugene Demler, Gergely Zaránd

Published Jan 22, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study theoretically the interaction between two species of bosons confined parabolically in one transverse direction but with a finite separation between the centers of the confining potentials. We demonstrate the existence of new types of confinement-induced Feshbach resonances that can be tuned by changing separation between the layers. They are much sharper than usual two-dimensional confinement-induced resonances, and can be observed in the shaking spectrum of the two-dimensional layers, as shown by detailed many-body calculations for a thermal Bose gas.

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