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Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments

, , , , , , , and . (2017)cite arxiv:1707.03925Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures.

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We create fermionic dipolar $^23$Na$^6$Li molecules in their triplet ground state from an ultracold mixture of $^23$Na and $^6$Li. Using magneto-association across a narrow Feshbach resonance followed by a two-photon STIRAP transfer to the triplet ground state, we produce $3\,\times\,10^4$ ground state molecules in a spin-polarized state. We observe a lifetime of $4.6\,s$ in an isolated molecular sample, approaching the $p$-wave universal rate limit. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy of the triplet state was used to determine the hyperfine structure of this previously unobserved molecular state.

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[1707.03925v1] Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments

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