Sympathetic cooling of the Ba${}^{+}$ ion by collisions with ultracold Rb atoms: theoretical prospects

Michał Krych, Wojciech Skomorowski, Filip Pawłowski +2

State-of-the-art {\em ab initio} techniques have been applied to compute the potential energy curves of the (BaRb)${}^{+}$ molecular ion in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The long…