Voges Kai K, Gersema Philipp, Meyer Zum Alten Borgloh Mara, Schulze Torben A, Hartmann Torsten, Zenesini Alessandro, Ospelkaus Silke
Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy.
Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Aug 21;125(8):083401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.083401.
We report the creation of ultracold bosonic dipolar ^{23}Na^{39}K molecules in their absolute rovibrational ground state. Starting from weakly bound molecules immersed in an ultracold atomic mixture, we coherently transfer the dimers to the rovibrational ground state using an adiabatic Raman passage. We analyze the two-body decay in a pure molecular sample and in molecule-atom mixtures and find an unexpectedly low two-body decay coefficient for collisions between molecules and ^{39}K atoms in a selected hyperfine state. The preparation of bosonic ^{23}Na^{39}K molecules opens the way for future comparisons between fermionic and bosonic ultracold ground-state molecules of the same chemical species.
我们报告了处于绝对振转基态的超冷玻色偶极(^{23}Na^{39}K)分子的制备。从沉浸在超冷原子混合物中的弱束缚分子开始,我们利用绝热拉曼通道将二聚体相干转移到振转基态。我们分析了纯分子样品和分子 - 原子混合物中的两体衰变,发现在选定的超精细态下,分子与(^{39}K)原子之间碰撞的两体衰变系数出人意料地低。玻色(^{23}Na^{39}K)分子的制备为未来对相同化学物种的费米子和玻色子超冷基态分子进行比较开辟了道路。