Hannover 2013 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 5: Cold Molecules I

MO 5.5: Vortrag

Montag, 18. März 2013, 15:00–15:15, F 107

Exciting polar molecules trapped on a chip — •Silvio Marx, Mark Abel, David Adu Smith, Gerard Meijer, and Gabriele Santambrogio — Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Over the last decade Stark decelerators have proven to be an important tool for the manipulation of external degrees of freedom of neutral polar molecules. Our chip-based Stark decelerators offer many advantages over macroscopic designs; among these advantages are relatively low voltage requirements, high field gradients, and tight spatial confinement of polar molecules. In addition, the simultaneous manipulation of internal degrees of freedom is necessary to gain full control over molecular motion. Here we demonstrate our ability in switching rotational and vibrational quantum states of CO molecules trapped above the chip. Moreover, we present the latest progress towards the direct spatial imaging of the trapped molecules.