Single-Photon Molecular Cooling

Abstract

We propose a general method to cool the translational motion of molecules. Our method is an extension of single photon atomic cooling which was successfully implemented in our laboratory. Requiring a single event of absorption followed by a spontaneous emission, this method circumvents the need for a cycling transition and can be applied to any paramagnetic or polar molecule. In our approach, trapped molecules would be captured near their classical turning points in an optical dipole or RF-trap following an irreversible transition process.

References in corpus (14)

• Matter-wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip
• Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
• Ultracold dense gas of deeply bound heteronuclear molecules
• Precision Test of Mass Ratio Variations with Lattice-Confined Ultracold Molecules
• Enhanced sensitivity to variation of the fine structure constant and m_p/m_e in diatomic molecules
• Deceleration and electrostatic trapping of OH radicals
• Stopping supersonic oxygen with a series of pulsed electromagnetic coils: A molecular coilgun
• Enhanced sensitivity to variation of $m_e/m_p$ in molecular spectra
• Magneto-electrostatic trapping of ground state OH molecules
• Ultracold atoms confined in rf-induced two-dimensional trapping potentials
• Atom trapping and two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in field-induced adiabatic potentials
• Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules
• Single-Photon Atomic Cooling
• Breaking van der Waals molecules with magnetic fields

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• Continuous all-optical deceleration and single-photon cooling of molecular beams
• Ponderomotive forces on waves in modulated media
• Ultracold $O_2$+$O_2$ collisions in a magnetic field: on the role of the potential energy surface
• Photostop: Production of zero-velocity molecules by photodissociation in a molecular beam
• Application of lasers to ultracold atoms and molecules
• Towards density and phase space compression of molecular gases in magneto-electrostatic traps
• Evaporation limited loading of an atom trap
• Cooling Atoms with a Moving One-Way Barrier
• Optimizing the catching of atoms or molecules in two-dimensional traps
• Single-photon loading of polar molecules into an optical trap
• Single-photon cooling at the limit of trap dynamics: Maxwell's Demon near maximum efficiency