Laser induced photodissociation of the NaRb molecule

The adiabatic potentials of low-lying electronic states of the NaRb molecule

“…The capital letter T refers to theoretical results and E denotes experimental data. 2 1 and Π 1 3 states of the NaRb molecule with experimental data obtained by Docenko et al [18], as well as with other theoretical results presented by Korek et al [21]. The capital letter T refers to theoretical results and E denotes experimental data.…”

“…To discuss theoretical and experimental adiabatic potential energy curves in all comparative figures, we shift all theoretical potentials by the dissociation energy, D e = 5030.85 cm −1 , derived from the recent experiment by Docenko et al [15]. In figure 6, we present the comparison of our adiabatic potential energy curve of the electronic ground Σ + 1 1 state with other theoretical [21,23] and experimental [9,12,15] results. In this figure, we can see that the shape of our curve and the potential well depth are in very good agreement with the experimental data.…”

“…Table 3 also lists spectroscopic parameters for electronic excited states, which correlate to the Na(3p)+Rb(5s) asymptote. Two of them, Σ + 3 1 and Π 2 1 , have both experimental and theoretical data, while only theoretical results are available for triplet states. For the Σ + 3 1 state, the present dissociation energy, D e , is equal to 4467 cm −1 and it agrees almost perfectly with Jastrzebski et alʼs [16] reported experimental value of 4419 cm −1 .…”

“…In recent decades alkali dimers have been intensively investigated by theoreticians and experimentalists. The results of their research are valuable in studies of collision dynamics, laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), photoassociation, and photodissociation [1][2][3][4]. The NaRb molecule is a frequently studied alkali dimer.…”

“…In 1936, Kusch used magnetic rotation spectroscopy to find a red band system coming from the Π 1 -Σ + 1 transitions [7]. The photodissociation of the NaRb molecule was observed in 1987 [1]. Next, this photodissociation was studied with a variety of Dopplerfree laser techniques by the Kato group [8][9][10][11][12].…”