Nuclear spin relaxation in cold atom-molecule collisions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05363v2
• Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:59:55 GMT
• Title: Nuclear spin relaxation in cold atom-molecule collisions
• Authors: Rebekah Hermsmeier, Xiaodong Xing, Timur V. Tscherbul
• Abstract summary: We explore the quantum dynamics of nuclear spin relaxation in cold collisions of $1Sigma+$ molecules with structureless atoms in an external magnetic field. We find that nuclear spin relaxation in the ground rotational manifold of CO occurs extremely slowly due to the absence of direct couplings between the nuclear spin sublevels. For some initial states, we also observe a strong magnetic field dependence, which can be understood using the first Born approximation.
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• Abstract: We explore the quantum dynamics of nuclear spin relaxation in cold collisions of $^1\Sigma^+$ molecules with structureless atoms in an external magnetic field. To this end, we develop a rigorous coupled-channel methodology, which accounts for rotational and nuclear spin degrees of freedom of $^1\Sigma^+$ molecules, their interaction with an external magnetic field, as well as for anisotropic atom-molecule interactions. We apply the methodology to study collisional relaxation of the nuclear spin sublevels of $^{13}$CO molecules immersed in a cold buffer gas of $^4$He atoms. We find that nuclear spin relaxation in the ground rotational manifold of CO occurs extremely slowly due to the absence of direct couplings between the nuclear spin sublevels. The rates of collisional transitions between the $N=1$ nuclear spin states of CO are generally much higher due to the direct nuclear spin-rotation coupling between the states. These transitions obey selection rules, which depend on the values of space-fixed projections of rotational and nuclear spin angular momenta for the initial and final molecular states. For some initial states, we also observe a strong magnetic field dependence, which can be understood using the first Born approximation. We use our calculated nuclear spin relaxation rates to investigate the thermalization of a single nuclear spin state of CO$(N=0)$ immersed in a cold buffer gas of He. The calculated nuclear spin relaxation times ($T_1\simeq 0.5$ s at $T=1$ K) display a steep temperature dependence decreasing rapidly at elevated temperatures due to the increased population of rotationally excited states, which undergo nuclear spin relaxation at a much faster rate. Thus, long relaxation times of $N=0$ nuclear spin states in cold collisions with buffer gas atoms can only be maintained at sufficiently low temperatures ($kT\ll 2B_e$), where $B_e$ is the rotational constant.

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