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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Construction of a Superconducting Zeeman-Sisyphus Decelerator

Alexander Frenett, Hiromitsu Sawaoka, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Zack Lasner, Abdullah Nasir, John M. Doyle

Published Jun 3, 2021• 0 citations
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We demonstrate and characterize Zeeman-Sisyphus (ZS) deceleration of a beam of ytterbium monohydroxide. Our method uses a combination of large magnetic fields ($\ensuremath{\sim}2.5$ T) and optical spin-flip transitions to decelerate molecules while scattering only $\ensuremath{\sim}10$ photons per molecule. We study the challenges associated with the presence of internal molecular perturbations among the excited electronic states and discuss the methods used to overcome these challenges, including a modified ZS decelerator using microwave and optical transitions.