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Efficient formation of strongly bound ultracold cesium molecules by photoassociation with tunneling

Mihaela Vatasescu, Claude M. Dion, Olivier Dulieu

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/0604139

Abstract

We calculate the rates of formation and detection of ultracold Cs2 molecules obtained from the photoassociation of ultracold atoms through the double-well 0g- (6S1/2 + 6P3/2) state. We concentrate on two features previously observed experimentally and attributed to tunneling between the two wells [Vatasescu et al 2000 Phys. Rev. A 61 044701]. We show that the molecules obtained are in strongly bound levels (v''=5,6) of the metastable a3Sigmau+ (6S1/2 + 6S1/2) ground electronic state.

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