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Electrostatic trapping of metastable NH molecules
Steven Hoekstra, Markus Metsala, Peter C. Zieger +4
We report on the Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of NH () radicals. In the trap, the molecules are excited on the spin-forbidden …
physics.atom-ph2006
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…