• Media type: E-Article; Text
  • Title: Two-photon optical shielding of collisions between ultracold polar molecules
  • Contributor: Karam, Charbel [Author]; Vexiau, Romain [Author]; Bouloufa-Maafa, Nadia [Author]; Dulieu, Olivier [Author]; Lepers, Maxence [Author]; Borgloh, Mara Meyer zum Alten [Author]; Ospelkaus, Silke [Author]; Karpa, Leon [Author]
  • imprint: College Park, MD : APS, 2023
  • Published in: Physical Review Research / American Physical Society 5 (2023), Nr. 3 ; Physical Review Research / American Physical Society
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/15357; https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033074
  • Keywords: Potassium alloys ; Ground state ; Binary alloys ; Photons ; Molecules
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  • Description: We propose a method to engineer repulsive long-range interactions between ultracold ground-state molecules using optical fields, thus preventing short-range collisional losses. It maps the microwave coupling recently used for collisional shielding onto a two-photon transition and takes advantage of optical control techniques. In contrast to one-photon optical shielding [Xie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 153202 (2020)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.125.153202], this scheme avoids heating of the molecular gas due to photon scattering. The proposed protocol, exemplified for Na23K39, should be applicable to a large class of polar diatomic molecules.
  • Access State: Open Access