Laser-catalyzed production of ultracold molecules: The Li6+Li6Li7→ ωli6-Li6+Li7 reaction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Li, Xuan ^a   Parker, Gregory A ^a   Brumer, Paul ^b   Thanopulos, Ioannis ^c   Shapiro, Moshe ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; MOLECULES;

HOMONUCLEAR; LASER INTENSITIES; PRODUCT MOLECULES; ULTRACOLD MOLECULES;

LASERS;

EID: 48849098743     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.043003     Document Type: Article

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