11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Monday, March 10, 2008
Morial Convention Center - 218
Sponsoring Unit:
DCP
Chair: Roland Wester, University of Freiburg
12:27 PM–1:03 PM
David DeMille
(Yale University)
Our group has recently demonstrated the ability to assemble ultracold, polar molecules from laser-cooled atoms. We use photoassociation followed by stimulated emission pumping to produce RbCs molecules in their absolute ground state, at temperatures $T\sim 100\mu \mbox{K}$. In recent work, we have moved towards the goal of accumulated large, high-density samples of ultracold RbCs. Here we present new results on the trapping and collisional properties of RbCs in levels of high vibrational excitation.