Photon-mediated charge exchange reactions between <sup>39</sup>K atoms and <sup>40</sup>Ca<sup>+</sup> ions in a hybrid trap
Hui Li, S. Jyothi, Ming Li, Jacek Kłos, Alexander Petrov, Kenneth R Brown, Svetlana Kotochigova
Abstract
is negligibly small as no energetically-favorable product states are available. Our experimental and theoretical rate coefficients are in agreement given the uncertainty budgets.
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IonAtomic physicsExcited stateChemistryIonizationKinetic energyIon trapAtom (system on chip)PotassiumGround stateMass spectrumNumber densityCharge exchangeEnergetic neutral atomSpectral lineEmission spectrumAnalytical Chemistry (journal)FluorescenceCharge (physics)Mass spectrometryExcitationIon trappingQuadrupole ion trapTrap (plumbing)KineticsBuffer gasCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum chaos and dynamical systemsAtomic and Molecular Physics