Probing photoinduced two-body loss of ultracold non-reactive bosonic ${}^{23}$Na${}^{87}$Rb and ${}^{23}$Na${}^{39}$K molecules

Abstract

We probe photo-induced loss for chemically stable bosonic ${}^{23}$Na${}^{87}$Rb and ${}^{23}$Na${}^{39}$K molecules in chopped optical dipole traps where the molecules spend a significant time in the dark. We expect the effective two-body decay to be largely suppressed in chopped traps due to the small expected complex lifetimes of about $13\mu$s and $6\mu$s for ${}^{23}$Na${}^{87}$Rb and ${}^{23}$Na${}^{39}$K respectively. However, instead we do observe near-universal loss even at the lowest chopping frequencies we can probe. Our data thus either suggest a so far unknown loss mechanism or a drastic underestimation of the complex lifetime by at least one to two orders of magnitude.

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