All-optical production of a degenerate mixture of Li6 and K40 and creation of heteronuclear molecules

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Spiegelhalder, F M ^a   Trenkwalder, A ^a   Naik, D ^a   Kerner, G ^a   Wille, E ^a,b   Hendl, G ^a   Schreck, F ^a   Grimm, R ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; FESHBACH RESONANCES; HETERONUCLEAR MOLECULES; MOLECULE FORMATION; STATE PREPARATION; SYMPATHETIC COOLING; TRAP LOADING;

FERMIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RESONANCE;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77951713045     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043637     Document Type: Article

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