Life and death of a cold BaRb${}^{+}$ molecule inside an ultracold cloud of Rb atoms

Amir Mohammadi, Artjom Krükow, Amir Mahdian +6

We study the evolution of a single BaRb${}^{+}$ molecule while it continuously collides with ultracold Rb atoms. The initially weakly-bound molecule can undergo a sequence of elastic,…