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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…
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…
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…
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…