Observation of a shape resonance in cold-atom scattering by pulsed photoassociation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 26, 1996, Pages 5194-5197

  Boesten, H M J M ^a   Tsai, C C ^b   Verhaar, B J ^a   Heinzen, D J ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLD ATOM COLLISION; COLD ATOM SCATTERING; LASER INTENSITY; OPTICAL TRANSITION; PHOTOASSOCIATION; SHAPE RESONANCE; SPIN-SPIN INTERACTION;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0030411105     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.5194     Document Type: Article

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