Photoinduced Two-Body Loss of Ultracold Molecules.

Volume: 123, Issue: 12, Pages: 123402
Published: Sep 17, 2019
Abstract
The lifetime of nonreactive ultracold bialkali gases was conjectured to be limited by sticky collisions amplifying three-body loss. We show that the sticking times were previously overestimated and do not support this hypothesis. We find that electronic excitation of \mathrm{NaK}+\mathrm{NaK}collision complexes by the trapping laser leads to the experimentally observed two-body loss. We calculate the excitation rate with a quasiclassical,...
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Title
Photoinduced Two-Body Loss of Ultracold Molecules.
Published Date
Sep 17, 2019
Volume
123
Issue
12
Pages
123402
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