Theoretical Investigation of Spectroscopic Properties of the Alkaline-Earth-Metal Monohydrides toward Laser Cooling and Magneto-Optical Trapping
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Abstract
Alkaline-earth-metal monohydrides MH (M = Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) have long been regarded as promising candidates toward laser cooling and trapping; however, their rich internal level structures that are amenable to magneto-optical trapping have not been completely explored. Here, we first systematically evaluated Franck-Condon factors of these alkaline-earth-metal monohydrides in the A2Π1/2 ← X2Σ+ transition, exploiting three respective methods (the Morse potential, the closed-form approximation, and the Rydberg-Klein-Rees method). The effective Hamiltonian matrix was introduced for MgH, CaH, SrH, and BaH individually in order to figure out their molecular hyperfine structures of X2Σ+, the transition wavelengths in the vacuum, and hyperfine branching ratios of A2Π1/2(J' = 1/2,+) ← X2Σ+(N = 1,-), followed by possible sideband modulation proposals to address all hyperfine manifolds. Lastly, the Zeeman energy level structures and associated magnetic g factors of the ground state X2Σ+(N = 1,-) were also presented. Our theoretical results here not only shed more light on the molecular spectroscopy of alkaline-earth-metal monohydrides toward laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping but also can contribute to research in molecular collisions involving few-atom molecular systems, spectral analysis in astrophysics and astrochemistry, and even precision measurement of fundamental constants such as the quest for nonzero detection of electron's electric dipole moment.
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