Stark-potential evaporative cooling of polar molecules in a novel optical-access opened electrostatic trap
Sun Hui, Wang Zhen-Xia, Wang Qin, Li Xing-Jia, Liu Jian-Ping, Yin Jian-Ping
       
The left column shows the contour distributions of the electrostatic field in the yz plane when the voltage applied to the two disks is (a) 10 kV, (b) 8 kV, (c) 6 kV, (d) 4 kV, and (e) 2 kV, respectively. When the molecules are stable in our electrostatic trap, we decrease the voltage by 2 kV every 50 ms. The right column shows the corresponding spatial distributions of the trapped molecules in the yz plane.