Control of Ultracold Collisions with Frequency-Chirped Light
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Control of ultracold collisions with frequency-chirped light.
We report on ultracold atomic collision experiments utilizing frequency-chirped laser light. A rapid chirp below the atomic resonance results in adiabatic excitation to an attractive molecular potential over a wide range of internuclear separation. This leads to a transient inelastic collision rate which is large compared to that obtained with fixed-frequency excitation. The combination of high...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.063001