Spin-conservation propensity rule for three-body recombination of ultracold Rb atoms
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| author | Haze, Shinsuke D'Incao, José P. Dorer, Dominik Deiß, Markus Tiemann, Eberhard Julienne, Paul S. Denschlag, Johannes Hecker |
| author_facet | Haze, Shinsuke D'Incao, José P. Dorer, Dominik Deiß, Markus Tiemann, Eberhard Julienne, Paul S. Denschlag, Johannes Hecker |
| contents | We explore the physical origin and the general validity of a propensity rule for the conservation of the hyperfine spin state in three-body recombination. This rule was recently discovered for the special case of $^{87}$Rb with its nearly equal singlet and triplet scattering lengths. Here, we test the propensity rule for $^{85}$Rb for which the scattering properties are very different from $^{87}$Rb. The Rb$_2$ molecular product distribution is mapped out in a state-to-state fashion using REMPI detection schemes which fully cover all possible molecular spin states. Interestingly, for the experimentally investigated range of binding energies from zero to $\sim13\:\textrm{GHz}\times h$ we observe that the spin-conservation propensity rule also holds for $^{85}$Rb. From these observations and a theoretical analysis we derive an understanding for the conservation of the hyperfine spin state. We identify several criteria to judge whether the propensity rule will also hold for other elements and collision channels. |
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| spellingShingle | Spin-conservation propensity rule for three-body recombination of ultracold Rb atoms Haze, Shinsuke D'Incao, José P. Dorer, Dominik Deiß, Markus Tiemann, Eberhard Julienne, Paul S. Denschlag, Johannes Hecker Atomic Physics Chemical Physics We explore the physical origin and the general validity of a propensity rule for the conservation of the hyperfine spin state in three-body recombination. This rule was recently discovered for the special case of $^{87}$Rb with its nearly equal singlet and triplet scattering lengths. Here, we test the propensity rule for $^{85}$Rb for which the scattering properties are very different from $^{87}$Rb. The Rb$_2$ molecular product distribution is mapped out in a state-to-state fashion using REMPI detection schemes which fully cover all possible molecular spin states. Interestingly, for the experimentally investigated range of binding energies from zero to $\sim13\:\textrm{GHz}\times h$ we observe that the spin-conservation propensity rule also holds for $^{85}$Rb. From these observations and a theoretical analysis we derive an understanding for the conservation of the hyperfine spin state. We identify several criteria to judge whether the propensity rule will also hold for other elements and collision channels. |
| title | Spin-conservation propensity rule for three-body recombination of ultracold Rb atoms |
| topic | Atomic Physics Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13714 |