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Optical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation
Steven Hoekstra, Joop J. Gilijamse, Boris Sartakov +4
Optical pumping by blackbody radiation is a feature shared by all polar molecules and fundamentally limits the time that these molecules can be kept in a single quantum state in a…
Magnetic trapping of buffer-gas cooled chromium atoms and prospects for the extension to paramagnetic molecules
Joost M. Bakker, Michael Stoll, Dennis R. Weise +3
We report the successful buffer-gas cooling and magnetic trapping of chromium atoms with densities exceeding atoms per cm at a temperature of 350 mK for the trapped…
Optimizing the Stark-decelerator beamline for the trapping of cold molecules using evolutionary strategies
Joop J. Gilijamse, Jochen Küpper, Steven Hoekstra +3
We demonstrate feedback control optimization for the Stark deceleration and trapping of neutral polar molecules using evolutionary strategies. In a Stark-decelerator beamline pulse…
A versatile electrostatic trap
Jacqueline van Veldhoven, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Melanie Schnell +1
A four electrode electrostatic trap geometry is demonstrated that can be used to combine a dipole, quadrupole and hexapole field. A cold packet of 15ND3 molecules is confined in bo…
Compact in-place gate valve for molecular beam experiments
Jochen Küpper, Henrik Haak, Kirstin Wohlfart +1
A high vacuum gate valve for skimmed molecular beam experiments is described. It is designed with a very short extent of only 10 mm along the molecular beam axis to minimize the di…