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Proposal to directly observe the Kondo effect through enhanced photoinduced scattering of cold fermionic and bosonic atoms

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

B. Sundar
E.J. Mueller

Abstract

We propose an experimental protocol to directly observe the Kondo effect by scattering ultracold atoms. We propose using an optical Feshbach resonance to engineer Kondo-type spin-dependent interactions in a system with ultracold Li6 and Rb87 gases. We calculate the momentum transferred from the Rb87 gas to the Li6 gas in a scattering experiment and show that it has a logarithmically enhanced temperature dependence, characteristic of the Kondo effect, and analogous to the resistivity of alloys with magnetic impurities. Experimentally detecting this enhancement will give a different perspective on the Kondo effect, and allow us to explore a rich variety of problems such as the Kondo lattice problem and heavy-fermion systems. © 2016 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review A

Volume

93

Issue

2

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959567181&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevA.93.023635&partnerID=40&md5=244a32d9d3a33027f2f67b9860a8e45e

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023635

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