Ac electric trap for ground-state molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Van Veldhoven, Jacqueline ^a,b   Bethlem, Hendrick L ^a,b   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC TRAP; EVAPORATIVE COOLING;

AMMONIA; ATOMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRAPS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCIES; GROUND STATE;

MOLECULES;

EID: 18144396189     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.083001     Document Type: Article

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