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Efficient production of long-lived ultracold <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mi>Sr</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> molecules

Efficient production of long-lived ultracold <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mi>Sr</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> molecules

We associate Sr atom pairs on sites of a Mott insulator optically and coherently into weakly-bound ground-state molecules, achieving an efficiency above 80\%. This efficiency is 2.5 times higher than in our previous work [S. Stellmer, B. Pasquiou, R. Grimm, and F. Schreck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 115302 (2012)] and …