photoassociate
verbEtymology From photo- + associate.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To associate atoms by means of photoassociation
- Starting with ultracold #123;87#125;Rb atoms, we apply pulses of frequency-chirped light to first photoassociate the atoms into excited molecules and then, later in the chirp, de-excite these molecules into a high vibrational level of the lowest triplet state, a#92;,#123;3#125;#92;Sigma#95;#123;u#125;#123;#43;#125;.173003 (2015), J. L. Carini, S. Kallush, R. Kosloff, P. L. Gould, “Enhancement of Ultracold Molecule Formation Using Shaped Nanosecond Frequency Chirps”, in Phys. Rev. Lett., volume 173003: