搜索

x
中国物理学会期刊

碱金属原子与碱金属极性双原子分子之间的范德瓦尔斯相互作用

Van der Waals interaction between alkali metal atoms and alkali metal polar diatomic molecules

PDF
导出引用
  • 范德瓦尔斯相互作用对原子与分子超冷碰撞有重要影响。本文研究了碱金属原子与碱金属极性双原子分子之间的范德瓦尔斯系数C6。考虑分子处于1Σ+电子态,基于微扰理论给出了转动基态分子与s/p/d态原子以及转动激发态分子与s态原子间的C6表达式。以K-NaK体系为例,分析了C6随振动量子数和转动量子数变化的趋势。通过对比对角化偶极-偶极相互作用矩阵得到的势能曲线和微扰得到的范德瓦尔斯势能曲线,确定了范德瓦尔斯势的适用范围。

     

    van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a crucial role in ultracold atom-molecule collisions, as they dominate the long-range part of the interparticle potential and govern essential scattering properties at millikelvin and submillikelvin. In this work, we systematically investigate the vdW coefficient C6 between alkali-metal atoms and alkali-metal polar diatomic molecules in the 1Σ+ electronic state. Based on secondorder perturbation theory, we derive analytical expressions for the C6 coefficient for the following cases: an atom in the s, p or d state interacting with a molecule in the rotational ground state (j = 0), and an atom in the s state interacting with a molecule in a rotationally excited state (j > 0). The formulas explicitly include the dependence on the vibrational quantum number ν and rotational quantum number j, enabling a quantitative description of the internal-state dependence of the long-range interaction. Taking the K-NaK system as an example, we calculate the C6 coefficients using the derived formulas and analyze their variation with vibrational and rotational quantum numbers. Our results reveal that the vibrational excitation significantly enhances the C6 coefficient, while the rotational excitation shows a relatively weaker but non-negligible effect. Furthermore, to determine the applicable range of the vdW potential, we compare the potential energy curves obtained from perturbation theory with those from a full diagonalization of the dipole-dipole interaction matrix. This comparison allows us to establish the minimum internuclear separation above which the second-order perturbative treatment remains accurate. Our comparison reveals that the vdW potential provides a quantitative description of the long-range interaction for R > 35 a0 in the K(4s)-NaK(X1Σ+, ν = 0) case. However, for the K(4p)-NaK(X1Σ+, ν = 0) system, the perturbative treatment requires a larger separation (R > 80 a0) to achieve the same level of accuracy, indicating a significantly extended range of the non-perturbative dipole-dipole coupling. Our findings provide systematic theoretical tools for modeling long-range interactions in alkali atom-molecule systems and provide quantitative reference data for future experiments on ultracold atom-molecule mixtures and quantum gas experiments.

     

    目录

    /

    返回文章
    返回