2 papers
cond-mat.quant-gas2025
Formation of ultracold KCs Feshbach molecules
Charly Beulenkamp, Krzysztof P. Zamarski, Robert C. Bird +5
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…