The $d \: ^3 \Pi$ state of LiRb
Atomic Physics
2016-12-21 v1
Abstract
We report our spectroscopic studies of the state of ultra-cold LiRb using resonantly-enhanced multi-photon ionization and depletion spectroscopy with bound-to-bound transitions originating from the metastable state. We evaluate the potential of this state for use as the intermediate state in a STIRAP transfer scheme from triplet Feshbach LiRb molecules to the ground state, and find that the lowest several vibrational levels possess the requisite overlap with initial and final states, as well as convenient energies. Using depletion measurements, we measured the well depth and spin-orbit splitting. We suggest possible pathways for short-range photoassociation using deeply-bound vibrational levels of this electronic state.
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@article{arxiv.1607.04608,
title = {The $d \: ^3 \Pi$ state of LiRb},
author = {I. Stevenson and D. Blasing and A. Altaf and Y. P. Chen and D. S. Elliott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04608},
year = {2016}
}