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Prospects for sympathetic cooling of molecules in electrostatic, ac and microwave traps
S. K. Tokunaga, Wojciech Skomorowski, Piotr S. Żuchowski +4
We consider how trapped molecules can be sympathetically cooled by ultracold atoms. As a prototypical system, we study LiH molecules co-trapped with ultracold Li atoms. We calculat…
Diffusion, thermalization and optical pumping of YbF molecules in a cold buffer gas cell
S. M. Skoff, R. J. Hendricks, C. D. J. Sinclair +5
We produce YbF molecules with a density of 10^18 m^-3 using laser ablation inside a cryogenically-cooled cell filled with a helium buffer gas. Using absorption imaging and absorpti…
Nonadiabatic transitions in a Stark decelerator
T. E. Wall, S. K. Tokunaga, E. A. Hinds +1
In a Stark decelerator, polar molecules are slowed down and focussed by an inhomogeneous electric field which switches between two configurations. For the decelerator to work, it i…