Optical Feshbach Resonances: Field-Dressed Theory and Experimental Comparisons

Junjun Xu, Ran Qi

Travis Nicholson, Sebastian Blatt, Benjamin Bloom +4 more

Optical Feshbach resonances (OFRs) have generated significant experimental interest in recent years. These resonances are promising for many-body physics experiments, yet the practical application of OFRs has been limited. The theory of OFRs has been based on an approximate model that fails in important detuning regimes, and the incomplete theoretical understanding of this effect has hindered OFR experiments. We present the most complete theoretical treatment of OFRs to date, demonstrating important characteristics that must be considered in OFR experiments and comparing OFRs to the well-studied case of magnetic Feshbach resonances. We also present a comprehensive treatment of the approximate OFR model, including a study of the range of validity for this model. Finally, we derive experimentally useful expressions that can be applied to real experimental data to extract important information about the resonance structure of colliding atoms.

D. B. M. Dickerscheid

Han Zhen, Tian-Shu Deng

The recently discovered Orbital Feshbach Resonance (OFR) offers the possibility of tuning the interaction between alkaline earth(-like) metal atoms with magnetic field. Here, we introduce a single-manifold Raman scheme to dress the OFR, which allows us to tune the interaction with the optical field and it is readily realizable in experiment. We demonstrate the scattering resonance could be shifted by the dressing Raman laser using few-body and many-body mean-field calculation, which give rise to an optical dependent two-body bound state and Raman coupling induced BCS-BEC crossover in the BCS-type mean field theory. Besides, we also discuss the application of single-manifold Raman scheme in Kondo research by writing down a Kondo lattice model.

Piers Coleman

Krittika Kanjilal, Iris Reichenbach, Ivan Deutsch