Pump-probe study of the formation of rubidium molecules by ultrafast photoassociation of ultracold atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  McCabe, David J ^a   England, Duncan G ^a   Martay, Hugo E L ^a   Friedman, Melissa E ^a   Petrovic, Jovana ^a   Dimova, Emiliya ^b   Chatel, Béatrice ^c   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND VIBRATIONAL STATE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHOTOASSOCIATION; PUMP-PROBE; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; ULTRACOLD RUBIDIUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; PROBES; RUBIDIUM;

PUMPS;

EID: 69849100854     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.033404     Document Type: Article

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