1302.5103 (M. Bhattacharya et al.)

The ground state OH molecule in combined electric and magnetic fields:
exact solution of the effective Hamiltonian    [PDF]

M. Bhattacharya, Z. Howard, M. Kleinert

The OH molecule is currently of great interest from the perspective of ultracold chemistry, quantum fluids, precision measurement and quantum computation. Crucial to these applications are the slowing, guiding, confinement and state control of OH, using electric and magnetic fields. In this Letter, we show that the corresponding eight-dimensional effective ground state Stark-Zeeman Hamiltonian is exactly solvable. Based on our solution, we analyze a waveguide for OH molecules. Our analytical result opens the way to insightful characterization of the magneto-electrostatic manipulation of ground state OH, and is also immediately applicable to other diatomic free radicals such as ClO, SF, NS, OD and SrF.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5103