High partial-wave (l ≥ 2) Feshbach resonance (FR) in an ultracold mixture of 85
Rb-
87Rb atoms is investigated experimentally aided by a partial-wave insensitive analytic multichannel quantum-defect theory. Two "broad" resonances from coupling between d waves in both the open and closed channels are observed and characterized. One of them shows a fully resolved triplet structure with a splitting ratio well explained by the perturbation to the closed channel due to interatomic spin-spin interaction. These tunable "broad" d-wave resonances, especially the one in the lowest-energy open channel, could find important applications in simulating d-wave coupling dominated many-body systems. In addition, we find that there is generally a time and temperature requirement, associated with tunneling through the angular momentum barrier, to establish and observe resonant coupling in nonzero partial waves. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203402 Ultracold atoms with controllable interaction via Feshbach resonance (FR) have provided an ideal platform to study novel phenomena in few-and many-body physics [1]. While quantum gases often display smooth crossover behavior when crossing an s-wave FR [2-6], they are predicted to exhibit complex order parameters and quantum phase transitions when driven across FRs of higher partial waves [7][8][9][10][11]. High partial-wave FRs can enhance the nominally suppressed nonzero partial-wave interactions at low temperatures to the unitarity limit [1]. They give access to high partial-wave pairing, which plays an important role in p-wave superfluidity in liquid 3 He [12] or the proposed d-wave high-T c superconductors [13], and can significantly expand the platforms for cold atom based quantum simulations.To coherently control high partial-wave interactions, it is crucial to find suitable high partial-wave FRs with small atom losses. Nearly lossless FRs have only been found in "broad" [1,14] s-wave resonances of fermionic alkali mixtures. All p-wave FRs observed to date are accompanied by strong losses due to either two-body dipolar spin flip or three-body recombination, even for fermionic atomic species [15][16][17][18]. The prevailing wisdom has been to search for high partial-wave FRs in the lowest energy open channels to avoid exothermic dipolar loss, and to search for "broad" high partial-wave FRs dominated by open channels to minimize the influence of the bound states. Unfortunately, the only alkali fermionic atoms, either [29,30]. Both cases described above exhibit one resonance peak.This Letter reports the first observation of two "broad" d-wave FRs, arising from the direct coupling between an open channel d wave and a closed channel d wave. We find a triplet structure with a peak-separation ratio in good agreement with interatomic spin-spin interaction [31] induced level splitting. One of the resonances is in the lowest-energy open channel and is thus free from two-body dipolar spin flip. This work is stimulated and guided by a partial-wave insensitive multichannel quantum-defect...