Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Sticky collisions of ultracold RbCs molecules

  • Philip D. Gregory,
  • Matthew D. Frye,
  • Jacob A. Blackmore,
  • Elizabeth M. Bridge,
  • Rahul Sawant,
  • Jeremy M. Hutson,
  • Simon L. Cornish

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11033-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Ultracold polar molecules are an excellent platform for quantum science but experiments so far see fast trap losses that are poorly understood. Here the authors investigate collisional losses of nonreactive RbCs, and show they are consistent with the sticky collision hypothesis, but are slower than the universal rate.