Photoassociative spectroscopy of 1g, 0+u, and 0−g states of Na2
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 101 (3) , 2638-2641
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.467638
Abstract
We use photoassociation of ultracold Na to study transitions from free atoms to bound molecules. We obtain rovibrational spectra of the 1g, the 0+u, and, for the first time, the 0−g ‘‘purely long‐range’’ state of Na2, all of which dissociate to Na(3 2S1/2)+Na(3 2P3/2).Keywords
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