title: Manipulation of p-wave scattering of cold atoms in low dimensions using the magnetic field vector.
abstract: It is well known that the magnetic Feshbach resonances of cold atoms are sensitive to the magnitude of the external magnetic field. Much less attention has been paid to the direction of such a field. In this work we calculate the scattering properties of spin polarized fermionic atoms in reduced dimensions, near a p-wave Feshbach resonance. Because of the spatial anisotropy of the p-wave interaction, the scattering has a nontrivial dependence on both the magnitude and the direction of the magnetic field. In addition, we identify an inelastic scattering process which is impossible in the isotropic-interaction model; the rate of this process depends considerably on the direction of the magnetic field. Significantly, an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled pair of identical fermions may be produced during this inelastic collision. This work opens a new method to manipulate resonant cold atomic interactions.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Shi-Guo
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA and Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Shina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China and Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Kaijun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jiang