About the database
The importance of controlling diatomic molecules is growing in chemical physics, owing to their applications in quantum information, ultracold chemistry, and the study of physics beyond the standard model. The majority of these applications rely on laser cooling and trapping techniques, which have been achieved for a few molecules. These techniques are suitable for molecules showing almost vertical Franck-Condon factors (FCF's), which depend directly on the spectroscopic constants of the ground and excited states. Thereby, developing a database with the spectroscopic constants as well as Franck-Condon information will help the research to target the perfect candidates for molecular laser cooling.
This database is devoted to the spectroscopic constants of polar diatomic molecules, taken from Huber and Herzberg's book 1, for the ground state and first excited states, as well as to the calculation of FCF's assuming a Morse potential shape for all the implied states.
[1] K.P.Huber and G.Herzberg, Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1979.
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In the current database, there are 250 molecules, in which 146 molecules with \(\Sigma\) ground state, 35 molecules with \(\Pi\) ground state, 9 molecules with \(\Delta\) ground state and 1 molecules with \(\Phi\) ground state.The figures below display the binding energies (bond dissociation energies) of the molecules in the database. The ● green circles indicate molecules that have been magneto-optically trapped, while the ● bronze circles represent molecules that show promise for trapping. ▲ Triangles denote molecules whose ionization potentials are lower than their bond dissociation energies; for these, ionization potentials are plotted instead.