Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D$_1$ line

Details Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D$_1$ line Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D$_1$ line

2005-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0511235v2

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043409 (2006)

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Atomic Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevA.73.043409

Photoassociation of two ultracold rubidium atoms and the subsequent formation of stable molecules in the singlet ground and lowest triplet states is investigated theoretically. The method employs laser pulses inducing transitions via excited states correlated to the $5S+5P_{1/2}$ asymptote. Weakly bound molecules in the singlet ground or lowest triplet state can be created by a single pulse while the formation of more deeply bound molecules requires a two-color pump-dump scenario. More deeply bound molecules in the singlet ground or lowest triplet state can be produced only if efficient mechanisms for both pump and dump steps exist. While long-range $1/R^3$-potentials allow for efficient photoassociation, stabilization is facilitated by the resonant spin-orbit coupling of the $0_u^+$ states. Molecules in the singlet ground state bound by a few wavenumbers can thus be formed. This provides a promising first step toward ground state molecules which are ultracold in both translational and vibrational degrees of freedom.

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