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Frontiers in Optics

Collision Studies between Ultracold NaCs Molecules and Composite Atoms

Amy Wakim, Patrick Zabawa, Christopher Haimberger, Jan Kleinert, N. P. Bigelow

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

Deeply bound ultracold polar NaCs molecules are electrostatically trapped and spatially overlapped with each magneto-optical trap to induce atom-molecule interactions. The resulting atom-molecule collision studies are presented.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2008.jsua18

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