Ultracold Collision Properties of Metastable Alkaline-Earth Atoms
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Ultracold collision properties of metastable alkaline-earth atoms.
Ultracold collisions of spin-polarized 24Mg, 40Ca, and 88Sr in the metastable 3P2 excited state are investigated based on molecular potentials obtained from ab initio calculations. We calculate the long-range interaction potentials and estimate the scattering length and the collisional loss rate as a function of magnetic field. The scattering lengths show resonance behavior due to the appearanc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.063002