Channel Selection of Ultracold Atom-Molecule Scattering in Dynamic Magnetic Fields

Phys Rev Lett. 2022 Jul 1;129(1):013402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.013402.

Abstract

We demonstrate that final states of ultracold molecules by scattering with atoms can be selectively produced using dynamic magnetic fields of multiple frequencies. We develop a multifrequency Floquet coupled channel method to study the channel selection by dynamic magnetic field control, which can be interpreted by a generalized quantum Zeno effect for the selected scattering channels. In particular, we use an atom-molecule spin-flip scattering to show that the transition to certain final states of the molecules in the inelastic scattering can be suppressed by engineered coupling between the Floquet states.