Sisyphus cooling of electrically trapped polyatomic molecules

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7425, 2012, Pages 570-573

  Zeppenfeld, Martin ^a   Englert, Barbara G U ^a   Glöckner, Rosa ^a   Prehn, Alexander ^a   Mielenz, Manuel ^a,b   Sommer, Christian ^a,c   Van Buuren, Laurens D ^a,d   Motsch, Michael ^a,e   Rempe, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DISSIPATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COOLING; EVAPORATION; KINETICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION;

SISYPHUS;

EID: 84869879608     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11595     Document Type: Article

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