Deceleration of neutral molecules in macroscopic traveling traps.

Osterwalder, A.; Meek, S. A.; Hammer, G.; Haak, H.; Meijer, G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.051401

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Deceleration of neutral molecules in macroscopic traveling traps.

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Meek, S. A.
Research Group of Precision Infrared Spectroscopy, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Osterwalder, A., Meek, S. A., Hammer, G., Haak, H., & Meijer, G. (2010). Deceleration of neutral molecules in macroscopic traveling traps. Physical Review A, 81(5): 051401. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.051401.

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Abstract

A decelerator is presented where polar neutral molecules are guided and decelerated using the principle of traveling electric potential wells, such that molecules are confined in stable three-dimensional traps throughout. We compare this decelerator with that of Scharfenberg et al. [Phys. Rev. A 79, 023410 (2009)] and we show that the current decelerator provides a substantially larger phase-space acceptance, even at higher acceleration. The mode of operation is described and experimentally demonstrated by guiding and decelerating CO molecules.