No evaporative cooling of nitric oxide in its ground state

Lucie D. Augustovičová and John L. Bohn
Phys. Rev. A 96, 042712 – Published 18 October 2017

Abstract

Cold collisions of N1614O molecules in the Π1/22 ground state, subject to electric and magnetic fields, are investigated. It is found that elastic collision rates significantly exceed state-changing inelastic rates only at temperatures above 0.5 K at laboratory-strength fields. It is found, however, that in very large fields, >104 V/cm, inelastic rates can be somewhat suppressed. Magnetic fields have a negligible influence on scattering for this nearly nonmagnetic state.

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  • Received 8 August 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042712

©2017 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

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Lucie D. Augustovičová* and John L. Bohn

  • JILA, NIST, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA

  • *Present address: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, CZ-12116 Prague 2, Czech Republic.

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Vol. 96, Iss. 4 — October 2017

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