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Controlling magnetic Feshbach resonances in polar open-shell molecules with non-resonant light

Atomic Physics 2014-03-24 v3

Abstract

Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances for polar paramagnetic ground-state diatomics are too narrow to allow for magnetoassociation starting from trapped, ultracold atoms. We show that non-resonant light can be used to engineer the Feshbach resonances in their position and width. For non-resonant field strengths of the order of 10910^9\,W/cm2^2, we find the width to be increased by three orders of magnitude, reaching a few Gauss. This opens the way for producing ultracold molecules with sizeable electric and magnetic dipole moments and thus for many-body quantum simulations with such particles.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0078,
  title  = {Controlling magnetic Feshbach resonances in polar open-shell molecules with non-resonant light},
  author = {Michał Tomza and Rosario González-Férez and Christiane P. Koch and Robert Moszynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0078},
  year   = {2014}
}