Broad Feshbach resonances in Dysprosium atoms

Dy Lab

We have characterized the scattering properties of ultracold 162Dy atoms for magnetic fields between 6 and 30 G. In addition to the typical chaotic distribution of narrow Feshbach resonances in Lanthanides, we have discovered two rather isolated broad features. A characterization using the complementary measurements of losses, thermalization, anisotropic expansion and molecular binding energy points towards resonances of predominant s-wave character, with dimensionless strength s=0.5(3). Such resonances will ease the investigation of quantum phenomena relying on the interplay between dipole and contact interactions.

E. Lucioni, et al.
Dysprosium dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with broad Feshbach resonances
Phys. Rev. A 97, 06060701(R) (2018)