Excitation-assisted nonadiabatic charge-transfer reaction in a mixed atom-ion system
Chemical Physics
2019-07-24 v1
Abstract
An important physical process unique to neutral-ion systems is the charge-transfer (CT) reaction. Here, we present measurements of and models for CT processes between co-trapped ultracold Ca atoms and Yb ions under well-controlled conditions. The theoretical analysis reveals the existence of three reaction mechanisms when lasers from a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and an additional catalyst laser are present. Besides the direct CT involving existent excited Ca population in the MOT, the second pathway is controlled by MOT-induced CT, whereas the third one mostly involves the additional red-detuned laser.
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@article{arxiv.1901.09061,
title = {Excitation-assisted nonadiabatic charge-transfer reaction in a mixed atom-ion system},
author = {Ming Li and Michael Mills and Prateek Puri and Alexander Petrov and Eric R. Hudson and Svetlana Kotochigova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09061},
year = {2019}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures