Giant enhancement of photodissociation of polar dimers in electric fields

Abstract

We explore the photodissociation of polar dimers in static electric fields in the cold regime using the example of the LiCs molecule. A giant enhancement of the differential cross section is found for laboratory electric field strengths, and analyzed with varying rovibrational bound states, continuum energies as well as field strengths.

6 pages, 6 figures

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