Different ground-state potentials for the same ultracold-collision outcome

Autor: A.L.M. Zanelatto, Reginaldo de Jesus Napolitano, Evandro Marcos Saidel Ribeiro
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Chemical Physics Letters. 399:135-139
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.09.149
Popis: For ultracold strontium atoms colliding at 1 μK, we search for and determine a class of continuous deformations of the ground-state potential curve, under which scattering results are invariant. We search for these potential transformations by keeping track of the changes in the scattering length and photoassociation probabilities ( X 1 Σ g + → 1 Σ u + ) , as we systematically vary a suitable parametric description of the ground-state potential curve. Through a careful analysis of the numerical data thus obtained, we determine one-parameter transformations leaving the scattering matrix invariant. Moreover, we find that any two of these transformations are quadratically related.
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