Two-photon-assisted collisions in ultracold gases of polar molecules

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Main Authors: Karam, Charbel, Hovhannesyan, Gohar, Vexiau, Romain, Lepers, Maxence, Bouloufa-Maafa, Nadia, Dulieu, Olivier
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author Karam, Charbel
Hovhannesyan, Gohar
Vexiau, Romain
Lepers, Maxence
Bouloufa-Maafa, Nadia
Dulieu, Olivier
author_facet Karam, Charbel
Hovhannesyan, Gohar
Vexiau, Romain
Lepers, Maxence
Bouloufa-Maafa, Nadia
Dulieu, Olivier
contents We present a theoretical formalism to treat the ultracold dynamics of a pair of colliding polar molecules submitted to two laser fields. We express the dressed Hamiltonian including the dipole-dipole interaction of the colliding molecular pair, both in their ground and electronic excited states, as well as their interaction with the two laser fields. We apply adiabatic elimination of the electronic excited state to reduce the size of the dressed-state basis in which the dressed Hamiltoninan is expressed. In an application, we investigate the feasibility of two-photon collisional shielding between two \NaK molecules, which could be favored by the Raman resonance condition suppressing unwanted spontaneous emission and photon scattering. We demonstrate the influence of the laser Rabi frequencies on the dynamics through the computation of elastic, inelastic, and reactive collision rates.
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spellingShingle Two-photon-assisted collisions in ultracold gases of polar molecules
Karam, Charbel
Hovhannesyan, Gohar
Vexiau, Romain
Lepers, Maxence
Bouloufa-Maafa, Nadia
Dulieu, Olivier
Quantum Gases
We present a theoretical formalism to treat the ultracold dynamics of a pair of colliding polar molecules submitted to two laser fields. We express the dressed Hamiltonian including the dipole-dipole interaction of the colliding molecular pair, both in their ground and electronic excited states, as well as their interaction with the two laser fields. We apply adiabatic elimination of the electronic excited state to reduce the size of the dressed-state basis in which the dressed Hamiltoninan is expressed. In an application, we investigate the feasibility of two-photon collisional shielding between two \NaK molecules, which could be favored by the Raman resonance condition suppressing unwanted spontaneous emission and photon scattering. We demonstrate the influence of the laser Rabi frequencies on the dynamics through the computation of elastic, inelastic, and reactive collision rates.
title Two-photon-assisted collisions in ultracold gases of polar molecules
topic Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00607