Suppression of Angular Momentum Transfer in Cold Collisions of Transition Metal Atoms in Ground States with Nonzero Orbital Angular Momentum
- 3 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 94 (1), 013201
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.013201
Abstract
The Zeeman relaxation rate in cold collisions of with He is measured. We find that collisional transfer of angular momentum is dramatically suppressed due to the presence of the filled shell. The degree of electronic interaction anisotropy, which is responsible for Zeeman relaxation, is estimated to be about 200 times smaller in the Ti-He complex than in He complexes with typical non--state atoms.
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