Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules
Atomic Physics
2020-07-29 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We measure inelastic collisions between ultracold CaF molecules by combining two optical tweezers, each containing a single molecule. We observe collisions between CaF molecules in the absolute ground state , and in excited hyperfine and rotational states. In the absolute ground state, we find a two-body loss rate of , which is below, but close to the predicted universal loss rate.
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@article{arxiv.2002.00048,
title = {Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules},
author = {Lawrence W. Cheuk and Loïc Anderegg and Yicheng Bao and Sean Burchesky and Scarlett Yu and Wolfgang Ketterle and Kang-Kuen Ni and John M. Doyle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00048},
year = {2020}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures