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Electric-field induced helium-helium resonances

Quantum Gases 2019-03-22 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

The tunability of the helium-helium interaction through an external electric field is investigated. For a static external field, electric-field induced resonances and associated electric-field induced bound states are calculated for the 4^4He-4^4He, 3^3He-4^4He, and 3^3He-3^3He systems. Qualitative agreement is found with the literature for the 3^3He-4^4He and 3^3He-3^3He systems [E. Nielsen, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{82}}, 2844 (1999)]. The implications of the predicted electric-field induced resonances for 4^4He-4^4He on the wave packet dynamics, initiated by intense laser pulses, are investigated. Our results are expected to guide next generation experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1903.08698,
  title  = {Electric-field induced helium-helium resonances},
  author = {Qingze Guan and Doerte Blume},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08698},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages and 6 figures