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View SchemaUltracold collision properties of metastable alkaline-earth atoms
| Authors | Andrei Derevianko, Sergey G. Porsev, Svetlana Kotochigova, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0210076 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210076 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.063002 |
Abstract
Ultra-cold collisions of spin-polarized 24Mg,40Ca, and 88Sr in the metastable 3P2 excited state are investigated. We calculate the long-range interaction potentials and estimate the scattering length and the collisional loss rate as a function of magnetic field. The estimates are based on molecular potentials between 3P2 alkaline-earth atoms obtained from ab initio atomic and molecular structure calculations. The scattering lengths show resonance behavior due to the appearance of a molecular bound state in a purely long-range interaction potential and are positive for magnetic fields below 50 mT. A loss-rate model shows that losses should be smallest near zero magnetic field and for fields slightly larger than the resonance field, where the scattering length is also positive.
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"abstract": "Ultra-cold collisions of spin-polarized 24Mg,40Ca, and 88Sr in the metastable\n3P2 excited state are investigated. We calculate the long-range interaction\npotentials and estimate the scattering length and the collisional loss rate as\na function of magnetic field. The estimates are based on molecular potentials\nbetween 3P2 alkaline-earth atoms obtained from ab initio atomic and molecular\nstructure calculations. The scattering lengths show resonance behavior due to\nthe appearance of a molecular bound state in a purely long-range interaction\npotential and are positive for magnetic fields below 50 mT. A loss-rate model\nshows that losses should be smallest near zero magnetic field and for fields\nslightly larger than the resonance field, where the scattering length is also\npositive.",
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