Possibility of buffer-gas cooling of paramagnetic carbon to ultracold temperatures

被引：5

作者：

Krems, RV

Zgid, D

Chalasinski, G

Klos, J

Dalgarno, A

机构：

[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Inst Theoret Atom & Mol Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[2] Warsaw Univ, Fac Chem, PL-03093 Warsaw, Poland

[3] Univ Nijmegen, NSRIM, Inst Theoret Chem, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands

[4] Oakland Univ, Dept Chem, Rochester, MI 48309 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2002年 / 66卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.66.030702

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate that the rate constant for the collisional relaxation of C(P-3(1)) in a buffer gas of He vanishes as the temperature decreases below 1 K. This suggests that the buffer-gas loading technique can be used for trapping excited paramagnetic C(P-3(1)) atoms at ultracold temperatures.

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页码：307021 / 307023

页数：3

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