Quantum state manipulation and cooling of ultracold molecules

T Langen, G Valtolina, D Wang, J Ye - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, an increasingly large variety of molecular species have been successfully
cooled to low energies, and innovative techniques continue to emerge to reach ever more …

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 …

Collisionally stable gas of bosonic dipolar ground-state molecules

N Bigagli, C Warner, W Yuan, S Zhang, I Stevenson… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Stable ultracold ensembles of dipolar molecules hold great promise for studies of many-
body quantum physics, but high inelastic loss rates have been a long-standing challenge …

Microwave shielding of bosonic NaRb molecules

J Lin, G Chen, M Jin, Z Shi, F Deng, W Zhang… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in creating and manipulating ground-
state ultracold polar molecules. However, the two-body loss regardless of the chemical …

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules

N Bigagli, W Yuan, S Zhang, B Bulatovic, T Karman… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit intriguing emergent
behaviour. Atomic quantum gases,, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials,–all …

Tunable itinerant spin dynamics with polar molecules

JR Li, K Matsuda, C Miller, AN Carroll, WG Tobias… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Strongly interacting spins underlie many intriguing phenomena and applications,,–ranging
from magnetism to quantum information processing. Interacting spins combined with motion …

Transition from a polaronic condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of heteronuclear molecules

M Duda, XY Chen, A Schindewolf, R Bause… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay of quantum statistics and interactions in atomic Bose–Fermi mixtures leads to a
phase diagram markedly different from pure fermionic or bosonic systems. However …

Ultracold gas of dipolar NaCs ground state molecules

I Stevenson, AZ Lam, N Bigagli, C Warner, W Yuan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report on the creation of bosonic NaCs molecules in their absolute rovibrational ground
state via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. We create ultracold gases with up to 22 000 …

Bimolecular chemistry in the ultracold regime

Y Liu, KK Ni - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics techniques allowed the cooling of simple
molecules down to the ultracold regime (1 mK) and opened opportunities to study chemical …

Collisions of ultracold molecules in bright and dark optical dipole traps

R Bause, A Schindewolf, R Tao, M Duda, XY Chen… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Understanding collisions between ultracold molecules is crucial for making stable molecular
quantum gases and harnessing their rich internal degrees of freedom for quantum …