Stability of a unitary Bose gas.

Fletcher RJ, Gaunt AL, Navon N, Smith RP, Hadzibabic Z

We study the stability of a thermal (39)K Bose gas across a broad Feshbach resonance, focusing on the unitary regime, where the scattering length a exceeds the thermal wavelength λ. We measure the general scaling laws relating the particle-loss and heating rates to the temperature, scattering length, and atom number. Both at unitarity and for positive a