Coherent transients in the femtosecond photoassociation of ultracold molecules
| Autor: | Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Wenzel Salzmann, Stefan M. Weber, Magnus Albert, Albrecht Lindinger, Franziska Sauer, Fabian Weise, Ludger Wöste, Judith Eng, Mateusz Plewicki, Terry Mullins, Andrea Merli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases
Physics Quantum optics education.field_of_study Polyatomic ion Population General Physics and Astronomy chemistry.chemical_element Pulse (physics) Rubidium chemistry Excited state Femtosecond Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters Physics::Atomic Physics Atomic physics education Excitation |
| Zdroj: | Physical review letters. 100(23) |
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
| Popis: | We demonstrate the photoassociation of ultracold rubidium dimers using coherent femtosecond pulses. Starting from a cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms, electronically excited rubidium molecules are formed with shaped photoassociation pump pulses. The excited state molecules are projected with a time-delayed probe pulse onto molecular ion states which are detected in a mass spectrometer. Coherent transient oscillations of the excited state population are observed in the wings of the pump pulse, in agreement with the time-dependent solution of the Schrodinger equation of the excitation process. |
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