title: Resonant coupling in the formation of ultracold ground state molecules via photoassociation.
abstract: We demonstrate the existence of a new mechanism for the formation of ultracold molecules via photoassociation of cold cesium atoms. The experimental results, interpreted with numerical calculations, suggest that a resonant coupling between vibrational levels of the 0+u (6s+6p1/2) and (6s+6p3/2) states enables formation of ultracold molecules in vibrational levels of the ground state well below the 6s+6s dissociation limit. Such a scheme should be observable with many other electronic states and atomic species.
authors: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton du CNRS, Bâtiment 505, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France.
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