Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 64, Number 2, October 2003
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Page(s) | 171 - 177 | |
Section | Atomic and molecular physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00284-x | |
Published online | 01 November 2003 |
Controlling the formation of cold molecules via a Feshbach resonance
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Bât. 505, Campus d'Orsay
91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Corresponding author: pierre.pillet@lac.u-psud.fr
Received:
16
May
2003
Accepted:
5
August
2003
Ultracold molecules are formed via photoassociation in a polarized sample of cold cesium atoms. The rate of molecule formation is controlled by tuning a magnetic field. The radial dependence of the colliding wave function is probed by the photoassociation spectroscopy technique. We have in this way observed the drastic influence of the magnetic field in a broad Feshbach resonance for f=3, m=3 colliding atoms and for magnetic fields up to 30.
PACS: 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping / 33.55.Be – Zeeman and Stark effects / 34.20.-b – Interatomic and intermolecular potentials and forces, potential energy surfaces for collisions
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