Resonant Control of Elastic Collisions between 23Na40K Molecules and 40K Atoms

We have demonstrated the resonant control of the elastic scattering cross sections in the vicinity of Feshbach resonances between (NaK)-Na-23-K-40 molecules and K-40 atoms by studying the thermalization between them. The elastic scattering cross sections vary by more than 2 orders of magnitude close to the resonance, and can be well described by an asymmetric Fano profile. The parameters that characterize the magnetically tunable s -wave scattering length are determined from the elastic scattering cross sections. The observation of resonantly controlled elastic scattering cross sections opens up the possibility to study strongly interacting atom-molecule mixtures and improve our understanding of the complex atom-molecule Feshbach resonances.