磁光阱中超冷钠-铯原子碰撞的实验研究

研究了磁光阱中异核超冷钠铯原子的碰撞机理, 测量了超冷钠原子的碰撞损失率, 得到了钠-铯原子的碰撞损失系数β_Na-Cs与钠原子俘获光强度之间的关系. 利用多普勒模型计算了不同俘获光强度下的钠原子磁光阱的阱深, 得到了临界光强的理论值, 与实验结果符合得较好.     

Large effects of electric fields on atom-molecule collisions at millikelvin temperatures

Controlling interactions between cold molecules using external fields can elucidate the role of quantum mechanics in molecular collisions. We create a new experimental platform in which ultracold rubidium atoms and cold ammonia molecules are separately trapped by magnetic and electric fields and then combined to study collisions. We observe inelastic processes that are faster than expected from earlier field-free calculations. We use quantum scattering calculations to show that electric fields can have a major effect on collision outcomes, even in the absence of dipole-dipole interactions.     

第五讲 基于激光冷却原子的超冷分子制备与外场操控

超冷分子的理论和实验研究近年来取得了令人瞩目的巨大成就,极大地拓展了原子分子光物理的研究范畴。围绕超冷分子的制备与应用开创了很多全新的研究领域,如超高分辨分子光谱、分子量子态操控、精密测量以及量子模拟等。当前超冷分子的高效密集制备主要采用基于激光冷却的超冷原子缔合技术来实现。文章综述了超冷分子缔合制备的研究现状,阐述了光缔合、Feshbach共振缔合、受激拉曼绝热跃迁以及超短脉冲光缔合产生超冷分子的物理机制与实验进展,对外场操控超冷分子的实验结果及其潜在应用做了概要展示。     

囚禁状态冷分子离子制备及应用

冷分子离子,尤其是在离子阱中空间囚禁起来的冷分子离子具有空间定域、可长时间存储以及和与环境分离的特性。这些特性使得空间囚禁的冷分子离子在分子光谱精密测量、探测分子离子与中性分子之间的碰撞反应等方面越来越受到人们的重视,并在最近几年得到了快速的发展。文章介绍了冷分子离子的产生方法,及其近几年在精密测量和低温下的碰撞反应等研究领域取得的主要研究成果。     

Suppression of molecular decay in ultracold gases without Fermi statistics

We study inelastic processes for ultracold three-body systems in which only one interaction is resonant. We show that at ultracold temperatures three-body recombination in such systems leads mainly to the formation of weakly bound molecules. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, we have found that the decay rates for weakly bound molecules due to collisions with other atoms can be suppressed not only without fermionic statistics but also when bosonic statistics applies. These results indicate that recombination in three-component atomic gases can be used as an efficient mechanism for molecular formation, allowing the achievement of high molecular densities.     

分子光学及其应用前景

随着原子光学的快速发展，一门新兴的有关研究中性分子与电场、磁场和光场等物质相互作用及其冷却、囚禁、操控与应用的学科——“分子光学”正在逐步形成．文章首先就分子光学的学术内涵及其研究内容作一简单类比与讨论；其次，就冷分子束的产生与超冷分子样品的实验制备、超冷分子物理与光谱学、非线性与量子分子光学的研究及其最新进展进行简要综述．最后，就分子光学的应用前景进行了展望．     

Observation of Feshbach resonances between two different atomic species

We have observed three Feshbach resonances in collisions between 6Li and 23Na atoms. The resonances were identified as narrow loss features when the magnetic field was varied. The molecular states causing these resonances have been identified, and additional 6Li-23Na resonances are predicted. These resonances will allow the study of degenerate Bose-Fermi mixtures with adjustable interactions and could be used to generate ultracold heteronuclear molecules.     

Ultracold inelastic collisions in two dimensions

We show that cross sections for inelastic collisions of ultracold atoms or molecules confined by a harmonic potential have the same energy dependence as in pure 2D geometry. This indicates that chemical reactions and inelastic collisions may be suppressed in an ultracold gas under strong confinement in one dimension. We present a numerical proof of the threshold collision laws in 2D. Our results indicate that inelastic collisions in weak electromagnetic fields may be controlled by varying the orientation of the external field axis with respect to the plane of confinement.     

Collisions of ultracold trapped cesium Feshbach molecules

We study collisions in an optically trapped, pure sample of ultracold Cs₂ molecules in various internal states. The molecular gas is created by Feshbach association from a near-degenerate atomic gas, with adjustable temperatures in the nanokelvin range. We identify several narrow loss resonances, which point to the coupling to more complex molecular states and may be interpreted as Feshbach resonances in dimerdimer interactions. Moreover, in some molecular states we observe a surprising temperature dependence in collisional loss. This shows that the situation cannot be understood in terms of the usual simple threshold behavior for inelastic two-body collisions. We interpret this observation as further evidence for a more complex molecular structure beyond the well-understood dimer physics.     

Rotational Feshbach resonances in ultracold molecular collisions

In collisions at ultralow temperatures, molecules will possess Feshbach resonances, foreign to ultracold atoms, whose virtual excited states consist of rotations of the molecules. We estimate the mean spacing and mean widths of these resonant states, exploiting the fact the molecular collisions at low energy display chaotic motion. As examples, we consider the experimentally relevant molecules O2, OH, and PbO. Especially for polar species, the density of s-wave resonant states is quite high, implying potentially disastrous consequences for trapped molecules.     

超冷极性分子

目前对超冷原子的研究已经从最初的原子分子物理扩展到了物理的很多分支.极性分子可以将电偶极相互作用引入到超冷体系,同时分子又与原子类似,可以灵活地被光和其他电磁场操控,因而很多理论工作都预言了超冷极性分子在超冷化学、量子模拟和量子信息等领域会有重要的应用.但由于超冷基态分子的制备非常困难,如何把超冷物理从原子发展到分子还是一个方兴未艾的课题.过去的10年间,各种分子冷却技术都取得了很大突破,本文回顾了这些进展,并着重介绍了基于异核冷原子的磁缔合结合受激拉曼转移这一技术,该技术在制备高密度的基态碱金属超冷极性分子上取得了较大的成功.本文也总结了超冷极性碱金属分子基本碰撞特性研究的一些实验结果.     

Coherent optical transfer of Feshbach molecules to a lower vibrational state

Using the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) we have coherently transferred ultracold (87)Rb(2) Feshbach molecules into a more deeply bound vibrational quantum level. Our measurements indicate a high transfer efficiency of up to 87%. Because the molecules are held in an optical lattice with not more than a single molecule per lattice site, inelastic collisions between the molecules are suppressed and we observe long molecular lifetimes of about 1 s. Using STIRAP we have created quantum superpositions of the two molecular states and tested their coherence interferometrically. These results represent an important step towards Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules in the vibrational ground state.     

Mg-CO(X1Σ+)体系的冷碰撞动力学

应用量子散射动力学方法, 研究了电场条件下Mg-CO体系的冷碰撞动力学性质, 探索了外电场对碰撞体系低场追索态的弹性和非弹性截面的影响, 为碱土金属Mg原子感应冷却CO分子提供理论预测.     

Investigation of ultracold atoms and molecules in a dark magneto-optical trap

In this paper,ultracold atoms and molecules in a dark magneto-optical trap(MOT) are studied via depumping the cesium cold atoms into the dark hyperfine ground state.The collision rate is reduced to 0.45s-1 and the density of the atoms is increased to 5.6×1011cm-3 when the fractional population of the atoms in the bright hyperfine ground state is as low as 0.15.The vibrational spectra of the ultracold cesium molecules are also studied in a standard MOT and in a dark MOT separately.The experimental results are analyzed by using the perturbative quantum approach.     

Xe-NH (X3∑-)体系的势能面和冷碰撞动力学研究

以超冷Xe原子感应冷却NH（X³∑^-）分子实验为背景,理论研究磁场中Xe和NH的冷碰撞动力学性质.通过从头算方法得到了解析表达的Xe-NH体系势能面,并在此基础上采用量子动力学计算方法,研究了磁场条件下NH低场追索态（n=0,m_j=1）的冷碰撞塞曼弛豫截面.结果表明超冷Xe原子感应冷却NH分子可能在实验上难以实施.     

Role of the atom-atom scattering length and of symmetrization in unidimensional ultracold atom-diatom collisions

The role of the atom-atom scattering length and of the symmetrization in ultracold atom-diatom collisions in one dimension is presented. For an ultracold atom-diatom collision and for a diatomic molecule in its highest vibrational state, inelastic rate coefficients vanish for a system composed of fermionic atoms as the atom-atom scattering length increases whereas they do not for a system composed of bosonicatoms. The differences come from the symmetrization of the wavefunction of the systems. We explain these differences by comparing the shape of the effective potentials of the atom-diatom approach. For the fermionic system, we use a zero-range interaction to modelize the adiabatic energies and we give a lower estimate of the atom-diatom scattering length as a function of the atom-atom scattering length.     

Cesium satellite band at 875.2 nm stemming from the Cs 2 0 g + (6 p 2 P 1/2 +6 s 2 S 1/2 ) state

We measured a very distinct satellite band at 875.2 nm between two resonance lines of cesium. Spectral simulation using Spies and Meyer [#!ref1!#] ab initio potential curves and an appropriate transition dipole moment function was compared with experimental profile. Implications of the investigated satellite band at 875.2 nm in the field of ultracold cesium atom collisions are discussed with a special emphasize to new possibilities of the photoassociation of two ground state atoms leading to the formation of ultracold intermediate long-range molecules. Received 07 March 2001 and Received in final form 14 May 2001     

Cold cesium molecules produced directly in a magneto-optical trap

We report on the observation of ultracold ground electric-state cesium molecules produced directly in a magneto- optical trap with a good signal-to-noise ratio. These molecules arise from the photoassociation of magneto-optical trap lasers and they are detected by resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization technology. The production rate of ultracold cesium molecules is up to 4×10⁴ s^-1. We measure the characteristic time of the ground electric-state cesium molecules generated in the experiment and investigate the Cs₂⁺ molecular ion intensity as a function of the trapping laser intensity and the ionization pulse laser energy. We conclude that the production of cold cesium molecules may be enhanced by using appropriate experimental parameters, which is useful for future experiments involving the production and trapping of ultracold ground electric-state molecules.     

K-Li冷碰撞散射特性的理论研究

本文应用量子方法和半经典方法计算了表征锂(6Li,7Li) 原子和钾(39K,40K,41K) 原子间超冷碰撞特性的散射参数,如s波散射长度,有效力程,p波散射长度等。超冷温度下6Li-39K单重态和三重态原子间的弹性散射截面主要为s波贡献,随着碰撞能量的增加散射截面有丰富的形状共振出现,计算发现单重态和三重态散射截面均存在显著的i波形状共振. 此外,本文应用简并内态近似获得了超精细态相互作用时的s波散射长度.     

Manipulating atoms and molecules with evanescent-wave mirrors

We explore how atoms and polar molecules can be manipulated using evanescent-wave mirrors (EWM). We review the simpler case of ultracold atoms incident on EWM, and show that quantum effects such as tunneling, above barrier reflection, and Casimir retardation corrections, can be probed. We show that it is possible to enhance significantly quantum effects by engineering sharp features in the effective atom-EWM potential. We illustrate the concept with a bichromatic EWM created by using red and blue detuned lasers. Finally, we extend the treatment to ultracold diatomic polar molecules. Quantum reflection and molecular state selection are demonstrated under attainable physical conditions. By facilitating the manipulation and trapping of ultracold molecules, such molecular mirrors could have several applications, e.g., as devices to filter and select state for ultracold chemistry, or to manipulate states for quantum information processing.