Title:	Water vapor at a translational temperature of 1K
Authors:	Rieger, T. Junglen, T. Rangwala, S.A. Rempe, G. Pinkse, P.W.H.
Keywords:	Optical cooling of molecules trapping Zeeman and Stark effects Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques
Issue Date:	Jul-2006
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Citation:	Physical Review A, 2006, Vol.73, p061402
Abstract:	We report the creation of a confined slow beam of heavy-water (D2O) molecules with a translational temperature around 1K . This is achieved by filtering slow D2O from a thermal ensemble with inhomogeneous static electric fields exploiting the quadratic Stark shift of D2O . All previous demonstrations of electric-field manipulation of cold dipolar molecules rely on a predominantly linear Stark shift. Further, on the basis of elementary molecular properties and our filtering technique we argue that our D2O beam contains molecules in only a few rovibrational states.
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4701
ISSN:	1050-2947 1094-1622 (online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.061402 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006PhRvA..73f1402R
Copyright:	2006 American Physical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (LAMP)

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