Reassessing the potential of TlCl for laser cooling experiments via four-component correlated electronic structure calculations

Abstract

The TlCl molecule has previously been investigated theoretically and proposed as promising candidates for laser cooling searches [X. Yuan et. al. J. Chem. Phys., 149, 094306, 2018]. From these results, the cooling process, which would proceed by transitions between a\sup{3}Π\sup{+}\sub{0} and X\sup{1}Σ\sup{+}\sub{0} states, had as potential bottleneck the long lifetime (6.04 μs) of the excited state a\sup{3}Π\sup{+}\sub{0} , that would prohibit experimentally control the slowing region. Here, we revisit this system by employing four-component Multireference Configuration Interaction (MRCI) calculations, and investigate the effect of such approaches on the calculated transition moments between a\sup{3}Π\sup{+}\sub{0} and a\sup{3}Π\sub{1} excited states of TlCl as well as TlF, the latter serving as a benchmark between theory and experiment. Wherever possible, MRCI results have been cross-validated by, and turned out to be consistent with, four-component equation of motion coupled-cluster (EOM-CC) and polarization propagator (PP) calculations. We find that the results of TlF are very closed to experiment values, while for TlCl the lifetime of the a3Π+0 state is now estimated to be 175 ns, which is much shorter than previous calculations indicated, thus yielding a different, more favorable cooling dynamics. By solving the rate-equation numerically, we provide evidence that TlCl could have cooling properties similar to those of TlF. Our investigations also point to the potential benefits of enhancing the stimulated radiation in optical cycle to improve cooling efficiency.

References in corpus (14)

• Laser cooling of a diatomic molecule
• Magneto-optical trapping of diatomic molecules
• Molecules cooled below the Doppler limit
• The DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations
• Ultracold molecules for measuring the electron's electric dipole moment
• Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Theory based on the 4-component Dirac-Coulomb(-Gaunt) Hamiltonian. Energies for single electron detachment, attachment and electronically excited states
• Challenges of laser-cooling molecular ions
• On the Prospects for Laser Cooling of TlF
• CeNTREX: A new search for time-reversal symmetry violation in the ${}^{205}$Tl nucleus
• Narrow-line Laser Cooling by Adiabatic Transfer
• Accurate Predictions of Volatile Plutonium Thermodynamic Properties
• Reassessing the potential of TlCl for laser cooling experiments via four-component correlated electronic structure calculations
• Measurement of the molecular dipole moment and the hyperfine and $\Lambda$-doublet splittings of the $B^3{\Pi }_1$ state of thallium fluoride
• On the $\Lambda$-doubling in the B${}^3{\Pi }_1$ state of TlF

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Reassessing the potential of TlCl for laser cooling experiments via four-component correlated electronic structure calculations
• Theoretical study of the I${}^{+}$ + I${}^{-}$ mutual neutralization reaction