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Laser-coolable polyatomic molecules with heavy nuclei

Authors :
T. A. Isaev
Ephraim Eliav
Andréi Zaitsevskii
Source :
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 50:225101
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
IOP Publishing, 2017.

Abstract

Recently a number of diatomic and polyatomics molecules has been identified as a prospective systems for Doppler/Sisyphus cooling. Doppler/Sisyphus cooling allows to decrease the kinetic energy of molecules down to microkelvin temperatures with high efficiency and then capture them to molecular traps, including magneto-optical trap. Trapped molecules can be used for creation of molecular fountains and/or performing controlled chemical reactions, high-precision spectra measurements and a multitude of other applications. Polyatomic molecules with heavy nuclei present considerable interest for the search for "new physics" outside of Standard Model and other applications including cold chemistry, photochemistry, quantum informatics etc. Herein we would like to attract attention to radium monohydroxide molecule (RaOH) which is on the one hand an amenable object for laser cooling and on the other hand provides extensive possibilities for searching for P-odd and P,T-odd effects. At the moment RaOH is the heaviest polyatomic molecule proposed for direct cooling with lasers.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, figures are changed for better representation of the results, supplementary materials added

Details

ISSN :
13616455 and 09534075
Volume :
50
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ffaa8b91cf5487af92bab0d5df34ce3f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa8f34