A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions

Details A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions

2008-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/0811.2452v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.032716

We propose a new method for the production of ultracold molecular ions. This method utilizes sympathetic cooling due to the strong collisions between appropriately chosen molecular ions and laser-cooled neutral atoms to realize ultracold, internal ground-state molecular ions. In contrast to other experiments producing cold molecular ions, our proposed method efficiently cools both the internal and external molecular ion degrees of freedom. The availability of an ultracold, absolute ground-state sample of molecular ions would have broad impact to fields as diverse as quantum chemistry, astrophysics, and fundamental physics; and may lead to the development of a robust, scalable quantum computer.

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