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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 1.1(3)×1051.1(3) \times 10^5 CaF molecules at a density of 4(1)×1064(1) \times 10^6 cm3^{-3}, which is an order of magnitude greater than previous molecular MOTs. Near Doppler-limited temperatures of 340(20)340(20) μ\muK are attained. The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.

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@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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