Dipolar Collisions of Ultracold Ground-State Bosonic Molecules

@article{Guo2018DipolarCO,
  title={Dipolar Collisions of Ultracold Ground-State Bosonic Molecules},
  author={Mingyang Guo and Xin Ye and Junyu He and Maykel L. Gonz'alez-Mart'inez and Romain Vexiau and Goulven Qu'em'ener and Dajun Wang},
  journal={Physical Review X},
  year={2018}
}
The dipolar collision between ultracold polar molecules is an important topic both by its own right from the fundamental point of view and for the successful exploration of many-body physics with strong and long-range dipolar interactions. Here, we report the investigation of collisions between ultracold ground-state sodium-rubidium molecules in electric fields with induced electric dipole moments as large as 0.7$\;$D. We observe a step-wise enhancement of losses due to the coupling between… 
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