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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.063405
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- ARO
- AFOSR
- NSF-PIF
- NSF [JILA-PFC-1125844]
- NIST
- ARO-DARPA-OLE
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1125844] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1211914] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent experimental developments in the loading of ultracold KRb molecules into quasi-two-dimensional traps, combined with the ability to tune the ratio between elastic and loss (inelastic, reactive) collisions through application of an external electric field, are opening the door to achieving efficient evaporative cooling of reactive polar molecules. In this paper, we use Monte Carlo simulations and semianalytic models to study theoretically the experimental parameter regimes in which evaporative cooling is feasible under current trapping conditions. We investigate the effect of the anisotropic character of dipole-dipole collisions and reduced dimensionality on evaporative cooling. We also present an analysis of the experimentally relevant antievaporation effects that are induced by chemical reactions that take place when more than one axial vibrational state is populated.
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