Feasibility of Cooling and Trapping Metastable Alkaline-Earth Atoms
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Feasibility of Cooling and Trapping Metastable Alkaline-Earth Atoms
Metastability and long-range interactions of Mg, Ca, and Sr in the lowest-energy metastable P2 state are investigated. The calculated lifetimes are 38 min for Mg , 118 min for Ca , and 17 min for Sr , supporting feasibility of cooling and trapping experiments. The quadrupole-quadrupole long-range interactions of two metastable atoms are evaluated for various molecular symmetries. Hund’s case (c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.023002