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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 4(108), 2012

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.043201

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Magnetically Tunable Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Li-Yb Mixtures

Journal article published in 2012 by Daniel A. Brue, Jeremy M. Hutson ORCID
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Abstract

We investigate the possibility of forming Li+Yb ultracold molecules by magnetoassociation in mixtures of ultracold atoms. We find that magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances exist, but are extremely narrow for even-mass ytterbium isotopes, which all have zero spin. For odd-mass Yb isotopes, however, there is a new mechanism due to hyperfine coupling between the electron spin and the Yb nuclear magnetic moment. This mechanism produces Feshbach resonances for fermionic Yb isotopes that can be more than 2 orders of magnitude larger than for the bosonic counterparts.