https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00136-9
Photoassociative formation of ultracold polar KRb molecules
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive,
stop 8423, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
Corresponding author: a svetlana@nist.gov
Received:
11
June
2004
Published online:
19
October
2004
We investigate the effectiveness of creating polar ground-state KRb molecules by two-color photoassociative spectroscopy. In this process the molecules are formed from ultra-cold samples of K and Rb. Focusing on spin-polarized atoms we show that an effective pathway exists. In addition, we investigate the stability of the polar molecules in the presence of a thermal black-body radiation field.
PACS: 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping / 34.20.Cf – Interatomic potentials and forces / 33.70.Ca – Oscillator and band strengths, lifetimes, transition moments, and Franck-Condon factors / 34.50.-s – Scattering of atoms and molecules
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004
