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We demonstrate rotational cooling of the silicon monoxide cation via optical pumping by a spectrally filtered broadband laser. Compared with diatomic hydrides, SiO+ is more challenging to cool because of its smaller rotational interval. However, the rotational level spacing and large dipole moment of SiO+ allows direct manipulation by microwaves, and the absence of hyperfine structure in its dominant isotopologue greatly reduces demands for pure quantum state preparation. These features make $^{28}$Si$^{16}$O+ a good candidate for future applications such as quantum information processing. Cooling to the ground rotational state is achieved on a 100 ms time scale and attains a population of 94(3)%, with an equivalent temperature $T=0.53(6)$ K. We also describe a novel spectral-filtering approach to cool into arbitrary rotational states and use it to demonstrate a narrow rotational population distribution ($Npm1$) around a selected state.
We demonstrate sympathetic sideband cooling of a $^{40}$CaH$^{+}$ molecular ion co-trapped with a $^{40}$Ca$^{+}$ atomic ion in a linear Paul trap. Both axial modes of the two-ion chain are simultaneously cooled to near the ground state of motion. Th
Cooling the rotation and the vibration of molecules by broadband light sources was possible for trapped molecular ions or ultracold molecules. Because of a low power spectral density, the cooling timescale has never fell below than a few milliseconds
We study the formation and destabilization of dark states in a single trapped 88Sr+ ion caused by the cooling and repumping laser fields required for Doppler cooling and fluorescence detection of the ion. By numerically solving the time-dependent den
Cold, velocity-controlled molecular beams consisting of a single quantum state promise to be a powerful tool for exploring molecular scattering interactions. In recent years, Stark deceleration has emerged as one of the main methods for producing vel
We present and derive analytic expressions for a fundamental limit to the sympathetic cooling of ions in radio-frequency traps using cold atoms. The limit arises from the work done by the trap electric field during a long-range ion-atom collision and