A moving magnetic trap decelerator: a new source of cold atoms and molecules

被引：39

作者：

Lavert-Ofir, Etay ^{[1
]}

Gersten, Sasha ^{[1
]}

Henson, Alon B. ^{[1
]}

Shani, Itamar ^{[1
]}

David, Liron ^{[1
]}

Narevicius, Julia ^{[1
]}

Narevicius, Edvardas ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Chem Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

来源：

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2011年 / 13卷

基金：

以色列科学基金会;

关键词：

VERY-LOW TEMPERATURES; KINETICS;

D O I：

10.1088/1367-2630/13/10/103030

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We present an experimental realization of a moving magnetic trap decelerator, where paramagnetic particles entrained in a cold supersonic beam are decelerated in a co-moving magnetic trap. Our method allows for an efficient slowing down of both paramagnetic atoms and molecules to near stopping velocities. We show that under realistic conditions we will be able to trap and decelerate a large fraction of the initial supersonic beam. We present our first results on deceleration in a moving magnetic trap by bringing metastable neon atoms to near rest. Our estimated phase space volume occupied by decelerated particles at a final velocity of 50 m s(-1) shows an improvement of two orders of magnitude as compared to currently available deceleration techniques.

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