Ytterbium atom-ion Collisions

С. М. Казаков, O. V. Khristoforov

敦史 山口

Atsushi Yamaguchi

Thaned Pruttivarasin

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2008.

І. І. Бондар, M. I. Dudich, В. В. Суран +1 more

H D L Lamb, John Goold, J F McCann +2 more

We investigate the ultracold, elastic-scattering of a trapped atom and a trapped ion. The low-energy potential surfaces of the [ 174 Yb− 87 Rb] + are estimated and the polarizability and higher-order multipole coefficients are obtained from ab initio calculations. The polarizability of the Ytterbium atom is well reproduced and the scattering length is estimated. The excited-state Yb + -Rb system is analysed in detail with a view to applications in hybrid ion-atom traps.