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Published on: March 30, 2017
Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density
Loïc Anderegg1,2, Benjamin L Augenbraun1,2, Eunmi Chae1,2
1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
We demonstrate significantly improved magneto-optical trapping of molecules using a very slow cryogenic beam source and either rf modulated or dc magnetic fields. The rf magneto-optical trap (MOT) confines 1.0(3)×10^{5} CaF molecules at a density of 7(3)×10^{6} cm^{-3}, which is an order of magnitude greater than previous molecular MOTs. Near Doppler-limited temperatures of 340(20) μK are attained. The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.

