Molecular spectroscopy for ground-state transfer of ultracold RbCs molecules

Debatin, Markus; Takekoshi, T.; Rameshan, Raffael; Reichsöllner, Lukas; Ferlaino, Francesca; Grimm, Rudolf; Véxiau, Romain; Bouloufa, Nadia; Dulieu, Olivier; Nägerl, Hanns‐Christoph

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“…In 2008 two groups have reported the formation of ultracold gases of polar LiCs and KRb molecules in ultracold temperatures [7,8]: ultracold LiCs molecules have been obtained by photoassociation of pairs of ultracold Li and Cs atoms and spontaneous decay of excited LiCs * molecule down to the electronic ground state, while ultracold KRb molecules have been created through magnetoassociation of ultracold K and Rb atoms into weakly bound levels of the molecular ground state, followed by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) toward the lowest rovibrational level [9,10]. There is also a number of other experiments aiming at creating ultracold heteronuclear diatomic alkalimetal molecules in their ground state like RbCs [11,12] and NaK [13], since in contrast with KRb [14] they are stable with respect to the chemical reactions of atom exchange and trimer formation [15].…”

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Ground- and excited-state properties of the polar and paramagnetic RbSr molecule: A comparative study

2014

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This paper deals with the electronic structure of RbSr, a molecule possessing both a permanent magnetic and electric dipole moment in its own frame allowing its manipulation with external fields. Two complementary ab-initio approaches are used for the ground and lowest excited states: first, an approach relying on optimized effective core potentials with core polarization potentials based on a full configuration interaction involving three valence electrons, and second, an approach using a small-size effective core potential with 19 correlated electrons in the framework of coupled-cluster theory. We have found excellent agreement between these two approaches for the ground state properties including the permanent dipole moment. We have focused on studies of excited states correlated to the two lowest asymptotes Rb(5p 2 P )+Sr(5s 2 1 S) and Rb(5s 2 S)+Sr(5s5p 3 P ) relevant for ongoing experiments on quantum degenerate gases. We present also the Hund c) case potential curves obtained using atomic spin-orbit constants. These potential curves are an excellent starting point for experimental studies of molecular structure of RbSr using high-resolution spectroscopy.

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Ground- and excited-state properties of the polar and paramagnetic RbSr molecule: A comparative study

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“…87 Rb 133 Cs molecules have been formed via magnetoassociation in both Innsbruck [28,29] and Durham [30,31]. The Innsbruck group [32] subsequently performed detailed one-and twophoton molecular spectroscopy and, very recently, reported the transfer of molecules to the rovibrational and hyperfine ground state by STIRAP [33].…”

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“…High transfer efficiency requires a high value of Ω 2 =γ for both transitions, where Ω is the Rabi frequency and γ is the natural linewidth. Debatin et al have identified several states suitable for STIRAP [32]. To locate the states, we pulse 20 μW of pump light, polarized parallel to the magnetic field, on the molecules in the jFi state for 750 μs.…”

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Creation of UltracoldRb87Cs133Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground Sta

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“…An attractive alternative is to form ground-state RbCs, which is expected to be collisionally stable because both the exchange reaction 2RbCs → Rb 2 + Cs 2 and trimer formation reactions are endothermic [14]. There has been considerable work on the Feshbach resonances [15] and molecule formation [16,17] in 87 Rb 133 Cs. However, this isotopologue has an interspecies background scattering length that is large and positive, which produces a spatial separation of the dual condensate [18] and enhances losses from three-body collisions [19,20].…”

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