Production of rovibronic ground state RbCs molecules via two-photon cascade decay

Toshihiko Shimasaki, Michael Bellos, C. D. Bruzewicz +2

We report the production of ultracold RbCs molecules in the rovibronic ground state, i.e., $X^1{\Sigma }^{+}(v=0,J=0)$, by short-range photoassociation to the $2^3{\Pi }_0$ state followed by…