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What is the molecule you are studying, and do you know what transition you are driving? What sort of system are you using to produce these molecules (a molecular beam? a vapor cell? something else?). How are you using the Rb reference to calibrate your scans, and what wavelength is your...

Combination differences should still work for quantum number assignment in the sense that the energy differences between ground states sharing a common excited state (or vice versa) must satisfy certain equalities. For example, for the ##^2\Pi_{1/2} - ^2\Sigma^+## case that you mention, you'll...

Hello! Sure it can, see for example the YbF and YbOH molecules that are being pursued for precision measurements. In a lot of cases, the spin-rotation constant is mostly determined by a second order perturbation interaction involving spin-orbit and rotational operators. This can be either...

Piggybacking off PeterDonis, I think it's really important to emphasize that the role of the tardigrade in these experiments is no different than that of a speck of dust (or any other dielectric placed inside the capacitor, for that matter). It wasn't entangled in any sense of the word, it...