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Over several experiments, they calculated the trapping lifetime as about 1.8 ms. "The lifetime of the ion in the optical dipole trap is limited by photon scattering and is thus expected to be ...

When both the dipole trap and the pre-cooling magneto-optical trap (MOT, see Fig. 1 and Methods section) are turned on together, a bright spot appears on a single pixel of the imaging CCD (charge ...

In search of those answers, Cornell and his colleagues developed a new method to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron. "Usually, when you apply a really large electric field to an ...

State-of-the-art techniques make it possible to build a spin-chain quantum simulator based on laser-trapped circular Rydberg atoms. This simulator combines the flexibility of atomic lattices and the ...

In an RF trap, the electromagnetic field acts on the ion’s dipole moment, generating a force that keeps it confined. In an optical trap, the confinement arises from the optical dipole force.

Monitoring precession: The researchers measured the electron electric dipole moment in hafnium fluoride ions confined within an ion trap. (Courtesy: Casey Cass/University of Colorado) Physicists at ...

“Our next step is to trap even heavier molecules, such as barium fluoride (BaF), which is one-and-a-half times heavier than SrF,” he says. “This type of molecule is even better for measurements on the ...

At this point RF-radiation changes the dipole orientation of a particular molecule into a more weakly trapped state. (The RF-radiation is only resonant to transitions in the high electric fields ...