Ultracold Dipolar Gas of Fermionic (NaK)-Na-23-K-40 Molecules in Their Absolute Ground State

作者：Park, Jee Woo^*; Will, Sebastian A.; Zwierlein, Martin W.

来源：Physical Review Letters, 2015, 114(20): 205302.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.205302

• POLAR-MOLECULES
• NAK
• RESONANCE
• LATTICE

We report on the creation of an ultracold dipolar gas of fermionic (NaK)-Na-23-K-40 molecules in their absolute rovibrational and hyperfine ground state. Starting from weakly bound Feshbach molecules, we demonstrate hyperfine resolved two-photon transfer into the singlet Chi (1)Sigma+vertical bar nu = 0; J = 0 > ground state, coherently bridging a binding energy difference of 0.65 eV via stimulated rapid adiabatic passage. The spin-polarized, nearly quantum degenerate molecular gas displays a lifetime longer than 2.5 s, highlighting NaK's stability against two-body chemical reactions. A homogeneous electric field is applied to induce a dipole moment of up to 0.8 D. With these advances, the exploration of many-body physics with strongly dipolar Fermi gases of 23Na40K molecules is within experimental reach.

• 出版日期2015-5-18