Direct laser cooling of polyatomic molecules

BL Augenbraun, L Anderegg, C Hallas… - Advances in Atomic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made to extend the tools of laser
cooling and trapping to molecules. Those same tools have recently been applied to …

Precision measurement of time-reversal symmetry violation with laser-cooled polyatomic molecules

I Kozyryev, NR Hutzler - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Precision searches for time-reversal symmetry violating interactions in polar molecules are
extremely sensitive probes of high energy physics beyond the standard model. To extend …

Sisyphus laser cooling of a polyatomic molecule

I Kozyryev, L Baum, K Matsuda, BL Augenbraun… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We perform magnetically assisted Sisyphus laser cooling of the triatomic free radical
strontium monohydroxide (SrOH). This is achieved with principal optical cycling in the …

Molecular asymmetry and optical cycling: laser cooling asymmetric top molecules

BL Augenbraun, JM Doyle, T Zelevinsky, I Kozyryev - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We present a practical roadmap to achieve optical cycling and laser cooling of asymmetric
top molecules (ATMs). Our theoretical analysis describes how reduced molecular symmetry …

Pathway toward optical cycling and laser cooling of functionalized arenes

D Mitra, ZD Lasner, GZ Zhu, CE Dickerson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Rapid and repeated photon cycling has enabled precision metrology and the development
of quantum information systems using atoms and simple molecules. Extending optical …

Toward improved loading, cooling, and trapping of molecules in magneto-optical traps

TK Langin, D DeMille - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments have demonstrated direct cooling and trapping of diatomic and triatomic
molecules in magneto-optical traps (MOTs). However, even the best molecular MOTs to date …

Enhanced molecular yield from a cryogenic buffer gas beam source via excited state chemistry

A Jadbabaie, NH Pilgram, J Kłos… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We use narrow-band laser excitation of Yb atoms to substantially enhance the brightness of
a cold beam of YbOH, a polyatomic molecule with high sensitivity to physics beyond the …

Characterizing the fundamental bending vibration of a linear polyatomic molecule for symmetry violation searches

A Jadbabaie, Y Takahashi, NH Pilgram… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Polyatomic molecules have been identified as sensitive probes of charge-parity violating
and parity violating physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). For example, many linear …

Prospects for laser cooling of polyatomic molecules with increasing complexity

J Kłos, S Kotochigova - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Optical cycling transitions and direct laser cooling have recently been demonstrated for a
number of alkaline-earth dimers and trimer molecules. This is made possible by diagonal …

Calculation of vibrational branching ratios and hyperfine structure of and its suitability for laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping

L Xu, Y Yin, B Wei, Y Xia, J Yin - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
More recently, laser cooling of the diatomic radical magnesium monofluoride (24 Mg 19 F) is
being experimentally preformed [Appl. Phys. Express 8, 092701 (2015) 10.7567/APEX …