Deceleration and trapping of ammonia using time-varying electric fields

Bethlem, Hendrick L.; Crompvoets, Floris M. H.; Jongma, Rienk T.; van de Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y. T.; Meijer, Gerard

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.053416

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Bethlem, H. L., Crompvoets, F. M. H., Jongma, R. T., van de Meerakker, S. Y. T., & Meijer, G. (2002). Deceleration and trapping of ammonia using time-varying electric fields. Physical Review A, 65(5): 053416. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.053416.

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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 (¹⁴NH₃, ¹⁴ND₃, ¹⁵ND₃) is decelerated. Subsequently, the decelerated molecules are loaded into an electrostatic quadrupole trap. Densities on the order of 10⁷molecules/cm³ at a temperature of 25 mK are obtained for ¹⁴ND₃ and ¹⁵ND₃ separately and simultaneously. This corresponds to a phase-space density in the trap of 2×10^-13, 50 times less than the initial phase-space density in the beam.