NOVEL INTENSITY DEPENDENCE OF ULTRACOLD COLLISIONS INVOLVING REPULSIVE STATES

被引:44
作者
BALI, S
HOFFMANN, D
WALKER, T
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
来源
EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1994年 / 27卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1209/0295-5075/27/4/004
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present measurements of the intensity dependence of excited-state collisions of laser-cooled Rb-85 atoms involving repulsive excited-state potentials. For high intensities, the collision rate decreases with increasing intensity, in accordance with a simple Landau-Zener treatment of the collision dynamics.
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页码:273 / 277
页数:5
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