Controlling the nature of a charged impurity in a bath of Feshbach dimers
Henrik Hirzler, Eleanor Trimby, Rianne S. Lous, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Rene Gerritsma, Jesús Pérez-Ríos
Abstract
This paper studies the evolution of a trapped ion impurity immersed in a bath of Feshbach molecules. Depending on the binding- and collision energy, the impurity induces Feshbach molecule dissociation or changes its nature leading to the formation of a molecular ion, offering an alternative approach to trapped ultracold molecular ions.
Topics & Concepts
ImpurityFeshbach resonanceDissociation (chemistry)Atomic physicsIonMoleculeChemistryChemical physicsPhysicsMolecular physicsTrappingPolyatomic ionMaterials scienceCollisionUltracold atomCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum chaos and dynamical systemsDust and Plasma Wave Phenomena