M. Lara
Ultracold Rb-OH Collisions and Prospects for Sympathetic Cooling
Lara, M.; Bohn, J.L.; Potter, D.E.; Soldan, P.; Hutson, J.M
Abstract
We compute ab initio cross sections for cold collisions of Rb atoms with OH radicals. We predict collision rate constants of order 10-11 cm3/s at temperatures in the range 10–100 mK at which molecules have already been produced. However, we also find that in these collisions the molecules have a strong propensity for changing their internal state, which could make sympathetic cooling of OH in a Rb buffer gas problematic in magnetostatic or electrostatic traps.
Citation
Lara, M., Bohn, J., Potter, D., Soldan, P., & Hutson, J. (2006). Ultracold Rb-OH Collisions and Prospects for Sympathetic Cooling. Physical Review Letters, 97, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.97.183201
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Nov 1, 2006 |
Deposit Date | May 10, 2007 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 20, 2010 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Print ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1079-7114 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 97 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.97.183201 |
Files
Published Journal Article
(167 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
© 2006 by The American Physical Society. All rights reserved.
You might also like
Making molecules by mergoassociation: Two atoms in adjacent nonspherical optical traps
(2023)
Journal Article
Shielding collisions of ultracold CaF molecules with static electric fields
(2023)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search