Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 65, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.053416
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A polar molecule experiences a force in an inhomogeneous electric field. Using this force, neutral molecules can be decelerated and trapped. It is shown here that this can in principle be done without loss in phase-space density. Using a series of 64 pulsed inhomogeneous electric fields a supersonic beam of ammonia molecules ((NH3)-N-14, (ND3)-N-14, (ND3)-N-15) is decelerated. Subsequently, the decelerated molecules are loaded into an electrostatic quadrupole trap. Densities on the order of 10(7) molecules/cm(3) at a temperature of 25 mK are obtained for (ND3)-N-14 and (ND3)-N-15 separately and simultaneously. This corresponds to a phase-space density in the trap of 2x10(-13), 50 times less than the initial phase-space density in the beam.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available