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The ability to cool and slow atoms with light for subsequent trapping 1, 2, 3 allows investigations of the properties and interactions of the trapped atoms in unprecedented detail. By contrast, the complex structure of molecules prohibits this type of manipulation, but magnetic trapping of calcium hydride molecules thermalized in ultra-cold buffer gas 4 and optical trapping of caesium dimers 5 generated from ultra-cold caesium atoms have been reported. However, these methods depend on the target molecules being paramagnetic or …
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Zhen-Xia Wang et al., Cooling and trapping polar molecules in an electrostatic trap, Chinese Physics B, 24 (2015) 053701-6.
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