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Magneto-Optical Trapping of a Metal Hydride Molecule
Jinyu Dai, Benjamin Riley, Qi Sun +2
We demonstrate a three-dimensional magneto-optical trap (MOT) of a metal hydride molecule, CaH. We are able to scatter photons with vibrational loss covered up to vi…
Chemistry in a Cryogenic Buffer Gas Cell
Qi Sun, Jinyu Dai, Rian Koots +4
Cryogenic buffer gas sources are ubiquitous for producing cold, collimated molecular beams for quantum science, chemistry, and precision measurements. The molecules are typically p…
Laser cooling of a fermionic molecule
Jinyu Dai, Qi Sun, Benjamin C. Riley +2
Only bosonic molecular species have been directly laser cooled to date, primarily due to an abundance of bosonic isotopes in nature and to their simpler hyperfine structure. Fermio…
Probing the limits of optical cycling in a predissociative diatomic molecule
Qi Sun, Claire E. Dickerson, Jinyu Dai +6
Molecular predissociation is the spontaneous, nonradiative bond breaking process that can occur upon excitation. In the context of laser cooling, predissociation is an unwanted con…
Direct laser cooling of calcium monohydride molecules
S. F. Vázquez-Carson, Q. Sun, J. Dai +2
We demonstrate optical cycling and sub-Doppler laser cooling of a cryogenic buffer-gas beam of calcium monohydride (CaH) molecules. We measure vibrational branching ratios for lase…