Structure and interactions of ultracold Yb ions and Rb atoms

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2012
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Lamb, H. D. L.
McCann, J. F.
McLaughlin, B. M.
Goold, John
Wells, N.
Lane, I.
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In order to study ultracold charge-transfer processes in hybrid atom-ion traps, we have mapped out the potential-energy curves and molecular parameters for several low-lying states of the Rb, Yb+ system. We employ both a multireference configuration interaction and a full configuration interaction (FCI) approach. Turning points, crossing points, potential minima, and spectroscopic molecular constants are obtained for the lowest five molecular states. Long-range parameters, including the dispersion coefficients, are estimated from our ab initio data. The separated-atom ionization potentials and atomic polarizability of the ytterbium atom (alpha(d) = 128.4 atomic units) are in good agreement with experiment and previous calculations. We present some dynamical calculations for (adiabatic) scattering lengths for the two lowest (Yb, Rb+) channels that were carried out in our work. However, we find that the pseudopotential approximation is rather limited in validity and only applies to nK temperatures. The adiabatic scattering lengths for both the triplet and singlet channels indicate that both are large and negative in the FCI approximation.
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Dipole polarizabilities , Alkali-metals , Cold , Photoassociation , Scattering , Collisions , Ytterbium , Spectra
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Lamb, H. D. L., McCann, J. F., McLaughlin, B. M., Goold, J., Wells, N. and Lane, I. (2012) 'Structure and interactions of ultracold Yb ions and Rb atoms', Physical Review A, 86(2), 022716 (7pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.022716
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