Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Phase protection of Fano-Feshbach resonances

  • Alexander Blech,
  • Yuval Shagam,
  • Nicolas Hölsch,
  • Prerna Paliwal,
  • Wojciech Skomorowski,
  • John W. Rosenberg,
  • Natan Bibelnik,
  • Oded Heber,
  • Daniel M. Reich,
  • Edvardas Narevicius,
  • Christiane P. Koch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14797-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The lifetime of decaying quantum states has been thought to depend on the strength of the coupling causing the decay. Here the authors demonstrate that quantum mechanical interference can dominate this process, observing Fano-Feshbach resonance lifetimes covering several orders of magnitude.