Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Abstract
A general scheme for rotational cooling of diatomic heteronuclear molecules is proposed. It uses a superconducting microwave cavity to enhance the spontaneous decay via Purcell effect. Rotational cooling can be induced by sequentially tuning each rotational transition to cavity resonance, starting from the highest transition level to the lowest one using an electric field. Electrostatic multipoles can be used to provide large confinement volume with essentially homogeneous background electric field.
Keywords
Deflection, Stark-Tuned Cavity Resonance, Polar molecules
Divisions
PHYSICS
Publication Title
Physical Review A
Volume
68
Issue
1
Additional Information
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
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