​​​Svetlana Kotochigova​ Group

2013 

 

Hyperfine Structure of Laser-Cooling Transitions in Fermionic Erbium-167
A. Frisch, K. Aikawa, M. Mark, F. Ferlaino, E. Berseneva, and S. Kotochigova
Phys. Rev. A 88, 032508 (2013).
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External field control of spin-dependent rotational decoherence of ultracold polar molecules
A. Petrov, C. Makrides, and S. Kotochigova
Molecular Physics 111, 1731-1737 (2013).
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Evidence for sympathetic vibrational cooling of translationally cold molecules
W. G. Rellergert, S. T. Sillivan, S. J. Schowalter, S. Kotochigova, K. Chen, and E. R. Hudson
Nature 495, 490-495 (2013).
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2012 

 

Anisotropic Polarizability of Ultracold Polar 40K87 Rb Molecules
B. Neyenhuis, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, A. Chotia, A. Petrov, S. Kotochigova, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230403 (2012).
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Towards the production of ultracold ground-state RbCs molecules: Feshbach resonances, weakly bound states, and the coupled-channel model
T. Takekoshi, M. Debatin, R. Rameshan, F. Ferlaino, R. Grimm, Hanns-Christoph Nagerl, C. Ruth Le Sueur, J. Hutson, P. S. Julienne, S. Kotochigova, and E. Tiemann
Phys. Rev. A 85, 032506 (2012).
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Anisotropy-Induced Feshbach Resonances in a Quantum Dipolar Gas of Highly Magnetic Atoms
A. Petrov, E. Tiesinga, and S. Kotochigova
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 103002 (2012).
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Role of Electronic Excitations in Ground-State-Forbidden Inelastic Collisions Between Ultracold Atoms and Ions
S. T. Sullivan, W. G. Rellergert, S. Kotochigova, and E. Hudson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 223002 (2012).
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Optical Production of Stable Ultracold 88Sr2 Molecules
G. Reinaudi, C. B. Osborn, M. McDonald, S. Kotochigova, and T. Zelevinsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 115303 (2012).
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Detailed spectroscopy of the Cs2 a3Σu+ state and implications for measurements sensitive to variation of the electron-proton ratio
S. Sainis, J. Sage, E. Tiesinga, S. Kotochigova, T. Bergeman, and D. DeMille
Phys. Rev. A 86, 022513 (2012).
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2011 

 

Univesalities in ultracold reactions of alkali polar molecules
G. Quemener, J. Bohn, A. Petrov, and S. Kotochigova
Phys. Rev. A 84, 062703 (2011).
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Ab initio properties of Li-group-II molecules for ultracold matter studies
S. Kotochigova, A. Petrov, M. Linnik, J. Klos, and P. S. Julienne
J. Chem. Phys. 135, 164108 (2011).
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Anisotropy in the interaction of ultracold dysprosium
S. Kotochigova and A. Petrov
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 19165-19170 (2011).
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Trapping molecular ions formed via photo-associative ionization of ultracold atoms
S. T. Sullivan, W. G. Rellergert, S. Kotochigova, K. Chen, S. J. Schowalter, and E. R. Hudson
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 18859-18863 (2011).
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Chemical reaction of ultracold atoms and ions in a hybrid trap
W. G. Rellergert, S. T. Sullivan, S. Kotochigova, A. Petrov, K. Chen, S. J. Schowalter, and E. R. Hudson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243201 (2011).
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Global analysis of data on the spin-orbit-coupled A1Σu+ and b3Πu states of Cs2
J. Bai, E. H. Ahmed, B. Beser, Y. Guan, S. Kotochigova, A. M. Lyyra, S. Ashman, C. M. Wolfe, J. Huennekens, Feng Xie, Dan Li, Li Li, M. Tamanis, R. Ferber, A. Drozdova, E. Pazyuk, A. V. Stolyarov, J. G. Danzl, H.-C. Nagerl, N. Bouloufa, O. Dulieu, C. Amiot, H. Salami, and T. Bergeman
Phys. Rev. A 83, 032514 (2011).
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Molecular-ion trap-depletion spectroscopy of BaCl+
K. Chen, S. J. Schowalter, S. Kotochigova, A. Petrov, W. G Rellergert, S. T. Sullivan, and E. R. Hudson
Phys. Rev. A 83, 030501(R) (2011).
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2010 

 

Electric-field-dependent dynamic polarizability and state-insensitive conditions for optical trapping of diatomic polar molecules
S. Kotochigova and D. DeMille
Phys. Rev. A 82, 063421 (2010).
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Dispersion interactions and reactive collisions of ultracold polar molecules
S. Kotochigova
New J. Phys. 12, 073041 (2010).
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Spectroscopic data, spin-orbit functios, and revised analysis of strong perturbative interactions for the A1Σ+ and b3Π states of RbCs
O. Docenko, M. Tamanis, R. Ferber, T. Bergeman, S. Kotochigova, A. V. Stolyarov, Andreia de Faria Nogueira, and C. E. Fellows
Phys. Rev. A 81, 042511 (2010).
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Radiative L-shell transitions in Fe XIX and Fe XX ions
S. Kotochigova, M. Linnik, K. P. Kirby, and N. S. Brickhouse
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 186, 85-93 (2010).
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2009 

 

Spectroscopic observations, spin-orbit functions, and coupled-channel deperturbation analysis of data on the
A1Σu+ and b3Πu states of Rb2
H. Salami and T. Bergeman, B. Beser, J. Bai, E. H. Ahmed, S. Kotochigova, A. M. Lyyra, J. Huennekens, C. Lisdat,
A. V. Stolyarov, O. Dulieu, P. Crozet and A. J. Ross
Phys. Rev. A 80, 022515 (2009).
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Ultra cold polar molecules near quantum degeneracy
S. Ospelkaus, K.-K. Ni, M.H.G. de Miranda, B. Neyenhuis, D. Wang, S. Kotochigova, P.S. Juienne, D.S. Jin and J. Ye
Faraday Discussions 142, 351-359 (2009).
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Multi-channel modelling of the formation of vibrationally cold polar KRb molecules
S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga and P.S. Julienne
New J. Phys. 11, 055043 (2009).
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Prospects for application of ultracold Sr2 molecules in precision measurements
S. Kotochigova, T. Zelevinsky, and Jun Ye
Phys. Rev. A 79, 012504 (2009).
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2008 

 

A high phase-space-density gas of polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state
S. Ospelkaus, A. Pe'er, K.-K. Ni, J. J. Zirbel, B. Neyenhuis, S. Kotochigova, P. S. Julienne, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin
Science 322, 231 (2008).
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Efficient state transfer in an ultracold dense gas of heteronuclear molecules
S. Ospelkaus, A. Pe'er, K.-K. Ni, J. J. Zirbel, B. Neyenhuis, S. Kotochigova, P. S. Julienne, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin
Nature Physics 4, 622 (2008).
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Inelastic collisions of ultracold heteronuclear molecules in an optical trap
E. R. Hudson, N. B. Gilfoy, S. Kotochigova, J. M. Sage, and D. DeMille
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203201 (2008)
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Enhanced sensitivity to variation of me/mp in molecular spectra
D. DeMille, S. Sainis, J. Sage, T. Bergeman, S. Kotochigova, and E. Tiesinga
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 043202 (2008).
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Precision Test of Mass Ration Variations with Lattice-Confined Ultracold Molecules
T. Zelevinsky, S. Kotochigova, and J. Ye
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 043201 (2008).
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Relativistic Electronic Structure of the Sr2 Molecule
S. Kotochigova
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 024303 (2008).
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Comparison of Autler-Townes splitting based absolute measurements of the 7Li2 A-X electronic transition dipole moment with ab initio theory
O. Salihoglu, P. Qi, E. H. Ahmed, S. Kotochigova, S. Magnier, and A. M. Lyyra
J. Chem. Phys. 129, 174301 (2008).
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2007 

 

Ab initio fully relativistic calculations of x-ray spectra of highly charged ions
S. Kotochigova,K. P. Kirby, and I. Tupitsyn
Phys. Rev. A 76, 052513 (2007).
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Prospects for making polar molecules with microwave fields
S. Kotochigova
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 073003 (2007).
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New Spectroscopic Data, Spin-Orbit Functions, and Global Analysis of Data on the A1Σu+ and b3Πu States of Na2
P.Qi, J. Bai, E. Ahmed, A. M. Lyyra, S. Kotochigova, A. J. Ross, C. Effantin, P. Zalicki, J. Vigue, G.Chawla, W.Field, T.-J. Whang, W. C. Stwalley, H. Knockel, E. Tiemann, J. Shang, L. Li, and T.Bergeman
J. Chem. Phys. 127, 044301 (2007).
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2006 

 

Controlling Polar Molecules in Optical Lattices
S. Kotochigova and E. Tiesinga
Phys. Rev. A 73, (R) 041405 (2006).
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Measurement of the Electronic Transition Dipole Moment by Autler-Townes Splitting: Comparison of Three and Four Level System Excitation Schemes for the Na2 A1Σu+ - X1Σg+ System
E. Ahmed, A. Hansson, P. Qi, L. Li, T. Kirova, J. Qi, A. Lazoudis, S. Magnier, S. Kotochigova, and M. Lyyra
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 084308 (2006).
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