Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density
Atomic Physics
2017-09-13 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate significantly improved magneto-optical trapping of molecules using a very slow cryogenic beam source and RF modulated and DC magnetic fields. The RF MOT confines CaF molecules at a density of cm, which is an order of magnitude greater than previous molecular MOTs. Near Doppler-limited temperatures of K are attained. The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.10288,
title = {Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density},
author = {Loic Anderegg and Benjamin Augenbraun and Eunmi Chae and Boerge Hemmerling and Nicholas R. Hutzler and Aakash Ravi and Alejandra Collopy and Jun Ye and Wolfgang Ketterle and John Doyle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10288},
year = {2017}
}
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5 Pages, 4 Figures