Electric field dependence of complex-dominated ultracold molecular collisions
arXiv:2109.02602 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.105.013310
Abstract
Recent experiments on ultracold non-reactive dipolar molecules have observed high two-body losses, even though these molecules can undergo neither inelastic, nor reactive (as they are in their absolute ground state), nor light-assisted collisions (if they are measured in the dark). In the presence of an electric field these losses seem to be near universal (the probability of loss at short-range is near unity) while in the absence of it the losses seem non-universal. To explain these observations we propose a simple model based on the mixing effect of an electric field on the states of the two diatomic molecules at long-range and on the density-of-states of the tetramer complex formed at short-range, believed to be responsible for the losses. We apply our model to collisions of ground-state molecules of endothermic systems, of current experimental interest.
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