Quantum Chaos in Ultracold Collisions of Erbium

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We have studied the scattering behavior of ultracold Er atoms and observed an enormous number of Fano-Feshbach scattering resonances and demonstrate high correlation in the spectra, underlying chaotic scattering between the particles. This work, now published in NATURE,  is a joint effort between our group, John L. Bohn from JILA (Boulder, Colorado),  and the team of Svetlana Kotochigova at Temple University (USA). Nice media coverage (in italian) from the MEDIA INAF. [more]