TY - JOUR
KW - laser cooling
KW - molecule trapping
AU - Alejandra Collopy
AU - Shiqian Ding
AU - Yewei Wu
AU - Ian Finneran
AU - Loïc Anderegg
AU - Benjamin Augenbraun
AU - John Doyle
AU - Jun Ye
AB - We report three-dimensional trapping of an oxide molecule (YO), using a radio-frequency magnetooptical trap (MOT). The total number of molecules trapped is \~1.5 \texttimes 10<sup>4</sup>, with a temperature of 4.1(5) mK. This diversifies the frontier of molecules that are laser coolable and paves the way for the second-stage narrow-line cooling in this molecule to the microkelvin regime. Futhermore, the new challenges of creating a 3D MOT of YO resolved here indicate that MOTs of more complex nonlinear molecules should be feasible as well.
BT - Physical Review Letters
DA - 2018-11
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.213201
N2 - We report three-dimensional trapping of an oxide molecule (YO), using a radio-frequency magnetooptical trap (MOT). The total number of molecules trapped is \~1.5 \texttimes 10<sup>4</sup>, with a temperature of 4.1(5) mK. This diversifies the frontier of molecules that are laser coolable and paves the way for the second-stage narrow-line cooling in this molecule to the microkelvin regime. Futhermore, the new challenges of creating a 3D MOT of YO resolved here indicate that MOTs of more complex nonlinear molecules should be feasible as well.
PY - 2018
EP - 213201
T2 - Physical Review Letters
TI - 3D Magneto-Optical Trap of Yttrium Monoxide
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.213201
VL - 121
SN - 0031-9007
ER -