Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration for Heavy Molecules with Perturbed Excited-State Structure

Hiromitsu Sawaoka, Alexander Frenett, Abdullah Nasir +4

We demonstrate and characterize Zeeman-Sisyphus (ZS) deceleration of a beam of ytterbium monohydroxide (YbOH). Our method uses a combination of large magnetic fields ($\sim$ 2.5 T)…