Abstract

We study atom-molecule inelastic scattering in a trapped alkali metal gas at ultracold temperature. We derive the atom-molecule Hamiltonian in the presence of hyperfine interactions and introduce angular momentum coupling schemes suited to the description of the short-and long-range physics of the collision. We provide a first estimate of the relative importance of rotational, hyperfine-changing, and spin-changing transitions within a simple rigid-rotor model. We also investigate the occurrence of resonance phenomena near the atom-molecule energy threshold.

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