The formation and interactions of cold and ultracold molecules: new challenges for interdisciplinary physics

O Dulieu, C Gabbanini - Reports on progress in physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress on research in the field of molecules at cold and ultracold temperatures is reported
in this review. It covers extensively the experimental methods to produce, detect and …

Interatomic potentials, electric properties and spectroscopy of the ground and excited states of the Rb2 molecule: ab initio calculations and effect of a non-resonant …

M Tomza, W Skomorowski, M Musiał… - Molecular …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Spectroscopic observations, spin-orbit functions, and coupled-channel deperturbation analysis of data on the and states of

H Salami, T Bergeman, B Beser, J Bai, EH Ahmed… - Physical Review A …, 2009 - APS
We present experimentally derived potential curves and spin-orbit interaction functions for
the strongly perturbed A Σ 1 u+ and b Π 3 u states of the rubidium dimer. The results are …

Pair correlations and photoassociation dynamics of two atoms in an optical tweezer

M Weyland, SS Szigeti, RAB Hobbs, P Ruksasakchai… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We investigate the photoassociation dynamics of exactly two laser-cooled Rb 85 atoms in an
optical tweezer and reveal fundamentally different behavior to photoassociation in many …

Inelastic collisions of cold polar molecules in nonparallel electric and magnetic fields

E Abrahamsson, TV Tscherbul… - The Journal of chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The authors present a detailed study of low-temperature collisions between CaD molecules
and He atoms in superimposed electric and magnetic fields with arbitrary orientations …

Fourier transform spectroscopy and extended deperturbation treatment of the spin-orbit-coupled and states of the Rb molecule

AN Drozdova, AV Stolyarov, M Tamanis, R Ferber… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
Fourier transform records of A 1 Σ u+− b 3 Π u→ X 1 Σ g+ and (2) 1 Π g→ A 1 Σ u+− b 3 Π u
laser-induced fluorescence in hot rubidium vapor have identified more than 4500 rovibronic …

Steering photoassociation of cold 85Rb atoms by two-color slowly-turned-on and rapidly-turned-off laser pulses

R Zhang, JW Hu, GR Wang, B Fu… - Journal of Physics B …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoassociation (PA) of 85 Rb atoms from the ground $\mathrm {X}^{1}\Sigma^{+}
_\mathrm {g} $ state to the excited $\mathrm {A}^{1}\Sigma^{+} _\mathrm {g} $ and $\mathrm …

New spectroscopic data, spin-orbit functions, and global analysis of data on the AΣu+ 1 and bΠu3 states of Na2

P Qi, J Bai, E Ahmed, AM Lyyra… - The Journal of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The lowest electronically excited states of Na 2 are of interest as intermediaries in the
excitation of higher states and in the development of methods for producing cold molecules …

Stimulating the production of deeply bound RbCs molecules with laser pulses: the role of spin–orbit coupling in forming ultracold molecules

S Ghosal, RJ Doyle, CP Koch… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the possibility of forming deeply bound ultracold RbCs molecules by a two-
color photoassociation experiment. We compare the results with those for Rb 2 in order to …

Experimental study of the state of the rubidium dimer

PT Arndt, VB Sovkov, J Ma, X Pan, DS Beecher… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
This paper reports a high-resolution experimental study and a numerical analysis of the Rb
2 6 1 Σ g+ ion-pair state. A large number of rovibrational term values spanning a wide range …