Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules

Abstract

We demonstrate the production of ultracold polar RbCs molecules in their vibronic ground state, via photoassociation of laser-cooled atoms followed by a laser-stimulated state transfer process. The resulting sample of $X^1{\Sigma }^{+}(v=0)$ molecules has a translational temperature of $\sim 100\mu$K and a narrow distribution of rotational states. With the method described here it should be possible to produce samples even colder in all degrees of freedom, as well as other bi-alkali species.

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