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

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.