Abstract
We study the formation of the RbCs molecule by an intense laser pulse using
nonlinear dynamics. Under the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, the system is
modeled by a two degree of freedom rovibrational Hamiltonian, which includes
the ground electronic potential energy curve of the diatomic molecule and the
interaction of the molecular polarizability with the electric field of the
laser. As the laser intensity increases, we observe that the formation
probability first increases and then decreases after reaching a maximum. We
show that the analysis can be simplified to the investigation of the long-range
interaction between the two atoms. We conclude that the formation is due to a
very small change in the radial momentum of the dimer induced by the laser
pulse. From this observation, we build a reduced one dimensional model which
allows us to derive an approximate expression of the formation probability as a
function of the laser intensity.
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