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most citedFormation of ultracold molecules by merging optical tweezers

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cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 1 cited

Formation of ultracold KCs Feshbach molecules

Charly Beulenkamp, Krzysztof P. Zamarski, Robert C. Bird +4

We report the creation of an ultracold gas of bosonic KCs molecules. We first demonstrate a cooling strategy relying on sympathetic cooling of Cs to produce…

physics.atom-ph2024

Making molecules by mergoassociation: the role of center-of-mass motion

Robert C. Bird, Jeremy M. Hutson

In mergoassociation, two atoms in separate optical traps are combined to form a molecule when the traps are merged. Previous theoretical treatments have considered only the relativ…

physics.atom-ph2023

Making molecules by mergoassociation: two atoms in adjacent nonspherical optical traps

Robert C. Bird, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Jeremy M. Hutson

Mergoassociation of two ultracold atoms to form a weakly bound molecule can occur when two optical traps that each contain a single atom are merged. Molecule formation occurs at an…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 63 cited

Formation of ultracold molecules by merging optical tweezers

Daniel K. Ruttley, Alexander Guttridge, Stefan Spence +4

We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom. Both atoms are in…

physics.atom-ph2023

Tunable Feshbach resonances in collisions of ultracold molecules in states with alkali-metal atoms

Robert C. Bird, Michael R. Tarbutt, Jeremy M. Hutson

We consider the magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances that may exist in ultracold mixtures of molecules in states and alkali-metal atoms. We focus on Rb+CaF as a prototype…