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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Resonant control of polar molecules in individual sites of an optical lattice
Thomas M Hanna1, Eite Tiesinga1, William F Mitchell2
1Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Maryland, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8423, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8423, USA.
Abstract:
We study the resonant control of two nonreactive polar molecules in an optical lattice site, focusing on the example of RbCs. Collisional control can be achieved by tuning bound states of the intermolecular dipolar potential by varying the applied electric field or trap frequency. We consider a wide range of electric fields and trapping geometries, showing that a three-dimensional optical lattice allows significantly wider avoided crossings than free space or quasi-two dimensional geometries. Furthermore, we find that dipolar confinement-induced resonances can be created with reasonable trapping frequencies and electric fields, and have widths that will enable useful control in forthcoming experiments.
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