Confinement-induced Resonance of Alkaline-earth-metal-like Atoms in Anisotropic Quasi-one-dimensional Traps

Abstract: We study the confinement-induced resonance (CIR) of $^{173}$Yb atoms near an orbital Feshbach resonance in a quasi-one-dimensional tube with transversal anisotropy. By solving the two-body scattering problem, we obtain the location of CIR for various anisotropy ratio and magnetic field. Our results show that the anisotropy of the trapping potential can serve as an additional knob to tune the location of CIR. In particular, one can shift the location of CIR to the region attainable in current experiment. We also study the energy spectrum of the system and analyze the properties of CIR from the perspective of bound states. We find that as the orbital Feshbach resonance acquires two nearly degenerate scattering channels, which in general have different threshold energies, CIR takes place when the closed channel bound state energy becomes degenerate with one of the thresholds.