Rotational cooling of molecules using lamps

Abstract

We investigate theoretically the application of tailored incoherent far-infrared fields in combination with laser excitation of a single rovibrational transition for rotational cooling of translationally cold polar diatomic molecules. The cooling schemes are effective on a timescale shorter than typical unperturbed trapping times in ion traps and comparable to obtainable confinement times of neutral molecules.

5 pages, 2 figures

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• Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
• Blackbody-radiation-assisted molecular laser cooling

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