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Acta Physica Sinica

A controllable electrostatic double-well trap for cold polar molecules

Xu Xue-Yan, Chen Hai-Bo, Yin Jianping, (1)巢湖学院物理系，巢湖 238000；华东师范大学物理系，光谱学与波谱学国家重点实验室，上海 200062; (2)华东师范大学物理系，光谱学与波谱学国家重点实验室，上海 200062

Published Jan 1, 2009• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose a novel controllable electrostatic double-well trap scheme by using two charged ring wires and two parallel transparent electrodes. The spatial distributions of the electrostatic field from the above charged wires and the charged plates are calculated. We also analyze the advantages of the proposed scheme, and discuss the loading process of cold molecules from a cold molecular beam into our trap. Our study shows that our controllable double-well trap is not only convenient to trap, manipulate and control cold polar molecules in the weak-field-seeking states, but also has the potential applications in molecule optics field，such as molecular interference, molecular entanglement, and molecular collisions, even to study the molecular BEC in the double-well trap, and so on.

DOI
10.7498/aps.58.1563

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We propose a novel electrostatic guiding scheme for cold polar molecules in weak-field-seeking states using a single charged wire half embanked in a ceramic substrate (i.e., a chip) and a homogeneous bias electric field, which is produced by a capacitor composed of two large parallel metal plates. We calculate the spatial distribution of the electrostatic fields generated by the combination of the charged wire and the plate capacitor and the corresponding trapping potentials for CO molecules, and analyse the relationships between the electric field and the parameters of the charged-wire layout. Our study shows that the proposed scheme with a single charged-wire can be used to guide cold polar molecules in the weak-field-seeking states, and has some potential applications in construction of various molecule-optical elements.
We propose an optically accessible electrostatic trap scheme to confine cold polar molecules by using two charged spherical electrodes, and we calculate the corresponding electric field distribution and the Stark trapping potential for ND3 molecules. We also propose a desirable scheme to realize an efficient loading of cold polar molecules in weak-field-seeking states, and our simulated results show that the maximal loading efficiency can reach ∼14%. In addition, we briefly discuss some potential applications of our proposed trap scheme in the studies of optical-potential evaporative cooling and electrostatic surface traps for cold polar molecules.
We propose a controllable surface guiding scheme for cold polar molecules by using four charged wires embedded in the substrate and calculate the spatial distributions of the electrostatic field. We analyze the relationship between the maximum trapping electric field (including the efficient well depth) and the system parameters, and we study the straight and bent guiding efficiencies of cold polar molecules in the weak-field-seeking state by using a simple theoretical model and Monte Carlo simulation. We show that the proposed four-wire scheme can be used to realize the manipulation and control of cold polar molecules in our surface guide on a chip and form a variety of molecule optics elements.
We propose a novel scheme to guide cold polar molecules on the surface of an insulating substrate (i.e., a chip) using a static electric field generated by the combination of a pair of parallel charged wires and a grounded metal plate. We calculate the spatial distributions of the electric fields from the above charged-wire layout and their Stark potentials for cold CO molecules, and analyze the relationships between the electric field and the parameters of the charged-wire layout. The result shows that this charged-wire scheme can be used to guide cold polar molecules in the weak-field-seeking state and to form various molecule-optical elements, even to realize a single-mode molecular waveguide on a molecule chip under certain conditions.