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most citedUltracold spin-polarized mixtures of 2Sigma molecules with S-state atoms: Collisional stability and implications for sympathetic cooling

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physics.chem-ph2021★ 17 cited

ExoMol molecular line lists -- XLIII: Rovibronic molecular line list the low-lying two states of NaO

G. B. Mitev, S. Taylor, Jonathan Tennyson +3

The sodium monoxide radical (NaO) is observed in night glow in the Earth's mesosphere and likely has astronomical importance. This study concerns the optical transitions within the…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 8 cited

High Resolution Spectroscopy of Neutral Yb Atoms in a Solid Ne Matrix

R. Lambo, C. -Y. Xu, S. T. Pratt +11

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the absorption and emission spectra of Yb atoms in a solid Ne matrix at a resolution of 0.025 nm. Five absorption bands were ide…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 4 cited

Reexamination of the ground state Born-Oppenheimer Yb potential

Giorgio Visentin, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Paweł Tecmer

The precision of the photoassociation spectroscopy of Yb dimer in degenerate gases is enough to improve the constraints on the new short-range gravity-like forces if the theoretica…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 11 cited

Mobility of the Singly-Charged Lanthanide and Actinide Cations: Trends and Perspectives

Giorgio Visentin, Mustapha Laatiaoui, Larry A. Viehland +1

The current status of gaseous transport studies of the singly-charged lanthanide and actinide ions is reviewed in light of potential applications to superheavy ions. The measuremen…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 20 cited

Laser Resonance Chromatography of Superheavy Elements

Mustapha Laatiaoui, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Larry A. Viehland

Optical spectroscopy constitutes the historical path to accumulate basic knowledge on the atom and its structure. Former work based on fluorescence and resonance ionization spectro…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 11 cited

Exploiting transport properties for the detection of optical pumping in heavy ions

Mustapha Laatiaoui, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Larry A. Viehland

We present a kinetic model for optical pumping in Lu and Lr ions as well as a theoretical approach to calculate the transport properties of Lu in its ground and…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 36 cited

Random to chaotic temperature transition in low-field Fano-Feshbach resonances of cold thulium atoms

V. A. Khlebnikov, D. A. Pershin, V. V. Tsyganok +5

Here, we report on the observation of a random to chaotic temperature transition in the spacing of Fano-Feshbach resonances in the ultracold polarized gas of thulium atoms. This tr…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 33 cited

Phase-locking between different partial-waves in atom-ion spin-exchange collisions

Tomas Sikorsky, Masato Morita, Ziv Meir +6

We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of spin dynamics of a single Sr ion colliding with an ultracold cloud of Rb atoms in various hyperfine states. Whil…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 22 cited

Cold collisions of heavy molecules with alkali-metal atoms in a magnetic field: Ab initio analysis and prospects for sympathetic cooling of SrOH by Li(S)

Masato Morita, Jacek Kłos, Alexei A. Buchachenko +1

We use accurate ab initio and quantum scattering calculations to explore the prospects for sympathetic cooling of the heavy molecular radical SrOH() by ultracold Li atoms in a…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 1 cited

Weakly bound molecules as sensors of new gravitylike forces

Mateusz Borkowski, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Roman Ciuryło +5

Several extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, including light dark matter candidates and unification theories, predict deviations from Newton's law of gravitation.…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 28 cited

Spin-orbit interactions and quantum spin dynamics in cold ion-atom collisions

Timur V. Tscherbul, Paul Brumer, Alexei A. Buchachenko

We present accurate ab initio and quantum scattering calculations on a prototypical hybrid ion-atom system Yb-Rb, recently suggested as a promising candidate for the experiment…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 16 cited

Adiabatic Channel Capture Theory Applied to Cold Atom-Molecule Reactions: Li + CaH -> LiH + Ca at 1 K

Timur V. Tscherbul, Alexei A. Buchachenko

We use quantum and classical adiabatic capture theories to study the chemical reaction Li + CaH -> LiH + Ca. Using a recently developed ab initio potential energy surface, which pr…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 35 cited

Charge transfer in the cold Yb + Rb collisions

Elvira R. Sayfutyarova, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Svetlana A. Yakovleva +1

Charge-transfer cold Yb + Rb collision dynamics is investigated theoretically using high-level {\it ab initio} potential energy curves, dipole moment functions and nonadiabatic…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 49 cited

Ultracold spin-polarized mixtures of 2Sigma molecules with S-state atoms: Collisional stability and implications for sympathetic cooling

T. V. Tscherbul, J. Klos, A. A. Buchachenko

The prospects of sympathetic cooling of polar molecules with magnetically co-trapped alkali-metal atoms are generally considered poor due to strongly anisotropic atom-molecule inte…