Engineering the sub-Doppler force in magneto-optical traps

Current dual-frequency magneto-optical traps (MOTs) for ultracold molecules are plagued by sub-Doppler heating effects, making them vastly inferior to standard atomic MOTs. Here we demonstrate theoretically that the sub-Doppler effects in such a MOT can be engineered to provide cooling instead of he...

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Main Authors: S. Xu, P. Kaebert, M. Stepanova, T. Poll, M. Siercke, S. Ospelkaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-11-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L042036