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Photoassociation of Ultracold NaLi

Atomic Physics 2018-02-14 v2 Quantum Gases Chemical Physics

Abstract

We perform photoassociation spectroscopy in an ultracold 23^{23}Na-6^6Li mixture to study the c3Σ+c^3\Sigma^+ excited triplet molecular potential. We observe 50 vibrational states and their substructure to an accuracy of 20 MHz, and provide line strength data from photoassociation loss measurements. An analysis of the vibrational line positions using near-dissociation expansions and a full potential fit is presented. This is the first observation of the c3Σ+c^3\Sigma^+ potential, as well as photoassociation in the NaLi system.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06772,
  title  = {Photoassociation of Ultracold NaLi},
  author = {Timur M. Rvachov and Hyungmok Son and Juliana J. Park and Pascal M. Notz and Tout T. Wang and Martin W. Zwierlein and Wolfgang Ketterle and Alan O. Jamison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06772},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures