Quantum computation and quantum simulation with ultracold molecules

SL Cornish, MR Tarbutt, KRA Hazzard - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold molecules confined in optical lattices or tweezer traps can be used to process
quantum information and simulate the behaviour of many-body quantum systems. Molecules …

Laser-cooled molecules

NJ Fitch, MR Tarbutt - Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
The last few years have seen rapid progress in the application of laser cooling to molecules.
In this review, we examine what kinds of molecules can be laser cooled, how to design a …

Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules

L Christakis, JS Rosenberg, R Raj, S Chi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic quantum systems with interacting constituents play an important role in quantum
information processing and in explaining fundamental phenomena in many-body physics …

On-demand entanglement of molecules in a reconfigurable optical tweezer array

CM Holland, Y Lu, LW Cheuk - Science, 2023 - science.org
Entanglement is crucial to many quantum applications, including quantum information
processing, quantum simulation, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Because of their rich …

An optical tweezer array of ultracold molecules

L Anderegg, LW Cheuk, Y Bao, S Burchesky… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ultracold molecules have important applications that range from quantum simulation and
computation to precision measurements probing physics beyond the Standard Model …

Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule

VV Albert, JP Covey, J Preskill - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We construct quantum error-correcting codes that embed a finite-dimensional code space in
the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of rotational states of a rigid body. These codes, which …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks

G Barontini, L Blackburn, V Boyer, F Butuc-Mayer… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
The detection of variations of fundamental constants of the Standard Model would provide
us with compelling evidence of new physics, and could lift the veil on the nature of dark …

A Feshbach resonance in collisions between triplet ground-state molecules

JJ Park, YK Lu, AO Jamison, TV Tscherbul, W Ketterle - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Collisional resonances are important tools that have been used to modify interactions in
ultracold gases, for realizing previously unknown Hamiltonians in quantum simulations, for …

Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules

PD Gregory, LM Fernley, AL Tao, SL Bromley, J Stepp… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold polar molecules combine a rich structure of long-lived internal states with access to
controllable long-range anisotropic dipole–dipole interactions. In particular, the rotational …

Blue-detuned magneto-optical trap of molecules

JJ Burau, P Aggarwal, K Mehling, J Ye - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Direct laser cooling of molecules has reached a phase-space density exceeding 10-6 in
optical traps but with rather small molecular numbers. To progress toward quantum …