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Calculations are reported on the rotation-vibration energy levels of the arsine molecule with associated transition intensities. A potential energy surface (PES) obtained from \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations is refined…
We demonstrate the production of ultracold polar RbCs molecules in their vibronic ground state, via photoassociation of laser-cooled atoms followed by a laser-stimulated state transfer process. The resulting sample of $X ^1\Sigma^+ (v=0)$…
Accounting for Coriolis mixing of experimentally known rotational bands with $K^{\pi}< 3^+$, non-adiabatic effects in energy and electric characteristics of excited states are investigated, within phenomenological model. The energy and wave…
We have measured and analyzed the hyperfine structure of two lines, one at 583nm and one at 401nm, of the only stable fermionic isotope of atomic erbium as well as determined its isotope shift relative to the four most-abundant bosonic…
We report the observation and analysis of the $3\,^3\Pi_{\Omega}$ double-minimum electronic excited state of $^{39}$K$^{85}$Rb. The spin-orbit components ($0^{+}, 0^{-}, 1$ and 2) of this state are investigated based on potentials developed…
Exploring inelastic and reactive collisions on the quantum level is a main goal of the developing field of ultracold chemistry. We present first experimental studies of inelastic collisions of metastable ultracold triplet molecules in the…
We build the first analytic empirical potential for the most deeply bound $\mbox{Li}_{2}$ state: $b\left(1^{3}\Pi_{u}\right)$. Our potential is based on experimental energy transitions covering $v=0-34$, and very high precision theoretical…
We report on measurements of the binding energies of several weakly bound vibrational states of the paramagnetic $^{174}$Yb$^{6}$Li molecule in the electronic ground state using two-photon spectroscopy in an ultracold atomic mixture…
We describe the theoretical advances that influenced the experimental creation of vibrationally and translationally cold polar $^{40}$K$^{87}$Rb molecules \cite{nphys08,science08}. Cold molecules were created from very-weakly bound…
Partial cross sections for the (p,gamma) reaction on the Y-89 nucleus that were measured previously at proton energies between 2.17 and 5.00 MeV and which were averaged over resonances were used to determine the absolute values and the…
Spectroscopic observables such as electromagnetic transitions strengths can be related to the properties of the intrinsic mean-field wave function when the latter are strongly deformed, but the standard rotational formulas break down when…
The structure of exotic nuclei provides valuable tests for state-of-the-art nuclear theory. In particular electromagnetic transition rates are more sensitive to aspects of nuclear forces and many-body physics than excitation energies alone.…
We investigate the formation of weakly bound, electronically excited, heteronuclear 6Li40K* molecules by single-photon photoassociation in a magneto-optical trap. We performed trap loss spectroscopy within a range of 325 GHz below the…
The vibrational branching ratios of SrOH for radiative decay to the ground electronic state, $X^{2}\Sigma^{+}$, from the first two electronically excited states, $A^{2}\Pi$ and $B^{2}\Sigma^{+}$, are determined experimentally at the…
We report on spectroscopic studies of hot and ultracold RbSr molecules, and combine the results in an analysis that allows us to fit a potential energy curve (PEC) for the X(1)$^2\Sigma^+$ ground state bridging the short-to-long-range…
We study the rovibronic transitions in NaK$_2$ between its electronic ground state $1^2A'$ and its second excited state $3^2A'$, to identify possible pathways for the creation of ultracold ground-state triatomic molecules. Our methodology…
We report coherent association of atoms into a single weakly bound NaCs molecule in an optical tweezer through an optical Raman transition. The Raman technique uses a deeply bound electronic excited intermediate state to achieve a large…
Using the polarisation labelling spectroscopy, we performed the detailed analysis of the level structure of excited electronic states of the $^{39}$KCs molecule in the excitation energy interval between 17500~cm$^{-1}$ and 18600~cm$^{-1}$…
We formulate the theory for a diatomic molecule in a spatially degenerate electronic state interacting with a non-resonant laser field and investigate its rovibrational structure in the presence of the field. We report on \textit{ab initio}…
In this work, we report results from our extensive spectroscopic study on AlF and AlCl molecules, keeping in mind potential laboratory as well as astrophysical applications. We carry out detailed electronic structure calculations in both…