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Cavity cooling of translational and ro-vibrational motion of molecules: ab initio-based simulations for OH and NO

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We present detailed calculations on the basis of our recent proposal for simultaneous cooling of the rotational, vibrational and external molecular degrees of freedom [1]. In this method, the molecular ro-vibronic states are coupled by an intense laser and an optical cavity via coherent Raman processes enhanced by the strong coupling with the cavity modes. For a prototype system, OH, we showed that the translational motion is cooled to a few μK and the molecule is brought to the internal ground state in about a second. Here, we investigate numerically the dependence of the cooling scheme on the molecular polarizability, selecting NO as a second example. Furthermore, we demonstrate the general applicability of the proposed cooling scheme to initially vibrationally and rotationally hot molecular systems.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Butenandt-Str. 11, 81377, München, Germany

    M. Kowalewski & R. de Vivie-Riedle

  2. Departament de Fisica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

    G. Morigi

  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

    P.W.H. Pinkse

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Kowalewski, M., Morigi, G., Pinkse, P. et al. Cavity cooling of translational and ro-vibrational motion of molecules: ab initio-based simulations for OH and NO. Appl. Phys. B 89, 459–467 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-007-2860-y

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