Formation and detection of ultracold ground-state polar molecules

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Haimberger, C ^a   Kleinert, J ^a   Bhattacharya, M ^a   Bigelow, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GROUND STATE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE;

GROUND-STATE POLAR MOLECULES; HETERONUCLEAR MOLECULES; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOASSOCIATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 19544379682     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.021402     Document Type: Article

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