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PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033035
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- Imperial College President's Ph.D. Scholarship scheme
- EPSRC [EP/I012044/1, EP/M027716/1, EP/P01058X/1]
- EPSRC [EP/M027716/1, EP/I012044/1, EP/P01058X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We demonstrate a trap that confines polarizable particles around the antinode of a standing-wave microwave field. The trap relies only on the polarizability of the particles far from any resonances and so can trap a wide variety of atoms and molecules in a wide range of internal states, including the ground state. The trap has a volume of about 10 cm(3) and a depth approaching 1 K for many polar molecules. We measure the trap properties using Li-7 atoms, showing that when the input microwave power is 610 W, the atoms remain trapped with a 1/e lifetime of 1.76(12) s, oscillating with an axial frequency of 28.55(5) Hz and a radial frequency of 8.81(8) Hz. The trap could be loaded with slow molecules from a range of available sources and is particularly well suited to sympathetic cooling and evaporative cooling of molecules.
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