Resonant Dipolar Collisions of Ultracold Molecules Induced by Microwave Dressing
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Author(s)
Yan, Zoe Z.
Park, Jee Woo
Ni, Yiqi
Loh, Huanqian
Will, Sebastian
Karman, Tijs
Zwierlein, Martin
Date Issued
August 2020
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2020 American Physical Society. We demonstrate microwave dressing on ultracold, fermionic Na23K40 ground-state molecules and observe resonant dipolar collisions with cross sections exceeding 3 times the s-wave unitarity limit. The origin of these interactions is the resonant alignment of the approaching molecules' dipoles along the intermolecular axis, which leads to strong attraction. We explain our observations with a conceptually simple two-state picture based on the Condon approximation. Furthermore, we perform coupled-channel calculations that agree well with the experimentally observed collision rates. The resonant microwave-induced collisions found here enable controlled, strong interactions between molecules, of immediate use for experiments in optical lattices.
MIT Department
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.063401
