Abstract
We have studied theoretically and numerically the cooling of CN molecules in a high-finesse optical cavity and show that these molecules can be cooled from 100 mK temperatures to submillikelvin temperatures in less than 1 ms. We establish that the cooling time does not change significantly with molecular numbers and initial temperatures over a wide range. We have further studied the scaling of the system for extending the current results for hundreds of molecules to a very large molecular ensemble. The results indicate that a gas of 109 molecules can be cooled in the cavity by use of a far-off-resonant and high-intensity pump source. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 013417 |
Journal | Physical Review A |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 1 |
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Publication status | Published - 25 Jul 2007 |