26 research outputs found
Heteronuclear molecules in an optical lattice: Theory and experiment
We study properties of two different atoms at a single optical lattice site
at a heteronuclear atomic Feshbach resonance. We calculate the energy spectrum,
the efficiency of rf association and the lifetime as a function of magnetic
field and compare the results with the experimental data obtained for K-40 and
Rb-87 [C. Ospelkaus et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120402 (2006)]. We treat the
interaction in terms of a regularized delta function pseudopotential and
consider the general case of particles with different trap frequencies, where
the usual approach of separating center-of-mass and relative motion fails. We
develop an exact diagonalization approach to the coupling between
center-of-mass and relative motion and numerically determine the spectrum of
the system. At the same time, our approach allows us to treat the anharmonicity
of the lattice potential exactly. Within the pseudopotential model, the center
of the Feshbach resonance can be precisely determined from the experimental
data.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, revised discussion of transfer efficienc
Quantum Zeno-based detection and state engineering of ultracold polar molecules
We present and analyze a toolbox for the controlled manipulation of ultracold polar molecules, consisting of detection of molecules, atom-molecule entanglement, and engineering of dissipative dynamics. Our setup is based on fast chemical reactions between molecules and atoms leading to a quantum Zeno-based collisional blockade in the system. We demonstrate that the experimental parameters for achieving high fidelities can be found using a straightforward numerical optimization. We exemplify our approach for a system composed of NaK molecules and Na atoms and we discuss the consequences of residual imperfections such as a finite strength of the quantum Zeno blockade
Ultracold Chemistry and its Reaction Kinetics
We study the reaction kinetics of chemical processes occurring in the
ultracold regime and systematically investigate their dynamics. Quantum
entanglement is found to play a key role in driving an ultracold reaction
towards a dynamical equilibrium. In case of multiple concurrent reactions
Hamiltonian chaos dominates the phase space dynamics in the mean field
approximation.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Modeling Photoassociative Spectra of Ultracold NaK + K
A model for photoassociation of ultracold atoms and molecules is presented and applied to the case of 39K and 23Na39K bosonic particles. The model relies on the assumption that photoassociation is dominated by long-range atom-molecule interactions well outside the chemical bond region. The frequency of the photoassociation laser is chosen close to a bound-bound rovibronic transition from the X1Σ+ ground state toward the metastable b3Π lowest excited state of 23Na39K, allowing us to neglect any other excitation, which could hinder the photoassociation detection. The energy level structure of the long-range 39K···23Na39K excited super-dimer is computed in the space-fixed frame by solving coupled-channel equations, involving the coupling between the 23Na39K internal rotation and the mechanical rotation of the super-dimer complex. A quite rich structure is obtained, and the corresponding photoassociation rates are presented. Other possible photoassociation transitions are discussed in the context of the proposed model
The coupled system (2)2Σ+ and (1)2Π of 7Li88Sr
We analyse rovibrational transitions of the (2)2Σ+-X(1)2Σ+ system of LiSr and find the energy levels of the (2)2Σ+ state to be perturbed by coupling between the (2)2Σ+ and (1)2Π states. We present an analysis of the coupled system yielding molecular parameters for the lowest vibrational levels of the (2)2Σ+ state and for higher vibrational levels of the (1)2Π state together with molecular coupling constants. Improved Dunham coefficients for the rovibrational levels of the X(1)2Σ+ state are also obtained, where the correlation with the parameters of the excited states is removed completely. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Hyperfine dependent atom-molecule loss analyzed by the analytic solution of few-body loss equations
We prepare mixtures of ultracold K atoms in various hyperfine spin
states and NaK molecules in an optical dipole trap at a fixed
magnetic field and study inelastic two-body atom-molecule collisions. We
observe atom-molecule losses that are hyperfine dependent with a two-body loss
rate far below the universal limit. We analyze the two-body loss dynamics based
on the derivation of general and easy applicable analytic solutions for the
differential equations describing the loss of an arbitrary number of
particles in a single collisional event