Optical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation

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dc.creatorHoekstra, Steven
dc.creatorGilijamse, Joop J.
dc.creatorSartakov, Boris
dc.creatorVanhaecke, Nicolas
dc.creatorScharfenberg, Ludwig
dc.creatorvan de Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y. T.
dc.creatorMeijer, Gerard
dc.date2006-12-21
dc.date2007-04-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:55:12Z
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dc.descriptionOptical pumping by blackbody radiation is a feature shared by all polar molecules and fundamentally limits the time that these molecules can be kept in a single quantum state in a trap. To demonstrate and quantify this, we have monitored the optical pumping of electrostatically trapped OH and OD radicals by room-temperature blackbody radiation. Transfer of these molecules to rotationally excited states by blackbody radiation at 295 K limits the $1/e$ trapping time for OH and OD in the $X^{2}Π_{3/2},v''=0,J''=3/2(f)$ state to 2.8 s and 7.1 s, respectively.
dc.descriptioncorrected small mistakes; added journal reference.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612214
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612214
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett. 98 133001 (2007)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.133001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/126883
dc.subjectAtomic Physics
dc.titleOptical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation
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