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Enhancing reactivity of SiO ions by controlled excitation to extreme rotational states
Sruthi Venkataramanababu, Anyang Li, Ivan Antonov +4
Optical pumping of molecules provides unique opportunities for control of chemical reactions at a wide range of rotational energies. This work reports a chemical reaction with extr…
Features of Molecular Structure Beneficial for Optical Pumping
James B. Dragan, Ivan O. Antonov, Brian C. Odom
Fast and efficient state preparation of molecules can be accomplished by optical pumping. Molecular structure that most obviously facilitates cycling involves a strong electronic t…
Precisely Spun Super Rotors
Ivan O. Antonov, Patrick R. Stollenwerk, Sruthi Venkataramanababu +3
Improved optical control of molecular quantum states promises new applications including chemistry in the quantum regime, precision tests of fundamental physics, and quantum inform…
Protocol for Optically Pumping AlH to a Pure Quantum State
Panpan Huang, Schuyler Kain, Antonio de Oliveira-Filho +1
We propose an optical pumping scheme to prepare trapped molecules in a pure state, the stretched hyperfine state o…
Cooling of a Zero-Nuclear-Spin Molecular Ion to a Selected Rotational State
Patrick R. Stollenwerk, Ivan O. Antonov, Sruthi Venkataramanababu +2
We demonstrate rotational cooling of the silicon monoxide cation via optical pumping by a spectrally filtered broadband laser. Compared with diatomic hydrides, SiO\+ is more challe…
Optical Pumping of TeH+: Implications for the Search for Varying mp/me
Patrick Stollenwerk, Mark G. Kokish, Antonio G. S. de Oliveira-Filho +2
Molecular overtone transitions provide optical frequency transitions sensitive to variation in the proton-to-electron mass ratio (). However, robust molecular stat…