@article {1959, title = {Dispersive optical detection of magnetic Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases}, journal = {Physical Review A}, volume = {96}, year = {2017}, month = {2017/08/18}, pages = {022705}, abstract = {

Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold atomic systems are chiefly identified and characterized through time consuming atom loss spectroscopy. We describe an off-resonant dispersive optical probing technique to rapidly locate Feshbach resonances and demonstrate the method by locating four resonances of\ 87Rb, between the\ |F=1,mF=1\⟩\ and\ |F=2,mF=0\⟩\ states. Despite the loss features being\ 100\ mG wide, we require only 21 experimental runs to explore a magnetic field range \>18 G. The resonances consist of two known s-wave features in the vicinity of 9 G and 18 G and two previously unobserved p-wave features near 5 G and 10 G. We further utilize the dispersive approach to directly characterize the two-body loss dynamics for each Feshbach resonance.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.96.022705}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02216}, author = {Bianca J. Sawyer and Milena S. J. Horvath and Eite Tiesinga and Amita B. Deb and Niels Kj{\ae}rgaard} }