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View SchemaOptical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
| Authors | J. M. Sage, S. Sainis, T. Bergeman, D. DeMille |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0501008 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0501008 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.203001 |
Abstract
We demonstrate the production of ultracold polar RbCs molecules in their vibronic ground state, via photoassociation of laser-cooled atoms followed by a laser-stimulated state transfer process. The resulting sample of $X ^1\Sigma^+ (v=0)$ molecules has a translational temperature of $\sim100 \mu$K and a narrow distribution of rotational states. With the method described here it should be possible to produce samples even colder in all degrees of freedom, as well as other bi-alkali species.
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