Ultracold collisions of a neutral atom with a trapped ion in 1D

Seth T. Rittenhouse, Lorenzo Oghittu, Arghavan Safavi-Naini +2

We present a fully quantum mechanical description of a free ${}^6$Li atom scattering from a trapped ${}^{171}$Yb${}^{+}$ ion in one dimension. By reformulating the system in polar coordina…