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Loïc Anderegg1,2, Benjamin L Augenbraun1,2, Eunmi Chae1,2, Boerge Hemmerling1,2, Nicholas R Hutzler1,2, Aakash Ravi1,2, Alejandra Collopy3, Jun Ye3, Wolfgang Ketterle2,4, John M Doyle1,2.
Abstract
We demonstrate significantly improved magneto-optical trapping of molecules using a very slow cryogenic beam source and either rf modulated or dc magnetic fields. The rf magneto-optical trap (MOT) confines 1.0(3)×10^{5} CaF molecules at a density of 7(3)×10^{6} cm^{-3}, which is an order of magnitude greater than previous molecular MOTs. Near Doppler-limited temperatures of 340(20) μK are attained. The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.Entities:
Year: 2017 PMID: 28949175 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.103201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161