Atom-dimer scattering and long-lived trimers in fermionic mixtures

Authors:
  • JLJ. Levinsen
    J. Levinsen
  • TTT. G. Tiecke
    T. G. Tiecke
  • JWJ. T. M. Walraven
    J. T. M. Walraven
  • DPD. S. Petrov
    D. S. Petrov
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Abstract
We consider a heteronuclear fermionic mixture on the molecular side of an interspecies Feshbach resonance and discuss atom-dimer scattering properties in uniform space and in the presence of an external confining potential, restricting the system to a quasi-2D geometry. We find that there is a peculiar atom-dimer p-wave resonance which can be tuned by changing the frequency of the confinement. Our results have implications for the ongoing experiments on Lithium-Potassium mixtures, where this mechanism allows for switching the p-wave interaction between a K atom and Li-K dimer from attractive to repulsive, and forming a weakly bound trimer with unit angular momentum. We show that such trimers are long-lived and the atom-dimer resonance does not enhance inelastic relaxation in the mixture, making it an outstanding candidate for studies of p-wave resonance effects in a many-body system.