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View SchemaProduction of Ultracold, Polar RbCs* Molecules via Photoassociation
| Authors | Andrew J. Kerman, Jeremy M. Sage, Sunil Sainis, David DeMille, Thomas Bergeman |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0308020 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0308020 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.033004 |
Abstract
We have produced ultracold, polar RbCs* molecules via photoassociation in a laser-cooled mixture of Rb and Cs atoms. Using a model of the RbCs* molecular interaction which reproduces the observed rovibrational structure, we infer decay rates in our experiments into deeply bound singlet ground state RbCs vibrational levels as high as 5 x 10^5 s^-1 per level. Population in such deeply bound levels could be efficiently transferred to the vibrational ground state using a single stimulated Raman transition, opening the possibility to create large samples of stable, ultracold polar molecules.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.033004",
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