Cold and ultracold molecules in the twenties

TP Softley - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A diversity of experimental techniques has been developed over the last 25 years to create
samples of molecular gases at temperatures close to the Absolute Zero—here we consider …

Cryogenic buffer gas beams of AlF, CaF, MgF, YbF, Al, Ca, Yb and NO–a comparison

SC Wright, M Doppelbauer, S Hofsäss… - Molecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cryogenic buffer gas beams are central to many cold molecule experiments. Here, we use
absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy to directly compare molecular beams of AlF, CaF …

Inner-shell excitation in the YbF molecule and its impact on laser cooling

C Zhang, C Zhang, L Cheng, TC Steimle… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The YbF molecule is a sensitive system for measuring the electron's electric dipole moment.
The precision of this measurement can be improved by direct laser cooling of the molecules …

Multivalent optical cycling centers: towards control of polyatomics with multi-electron degrees of freedom

P Yu, A Lopez, WA Goddard, NR Hutzler - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical control of polyatomic molecules promises new opportunities in precision metrology
and fundamental chemistry, as well as quantum information and many-body science …

Fundamental symmetries, neutrons, and neutrinos (FSNN): Whitepaper for the 2023 NSAC long range plan

B Acharya, C Adams, AA Aleksandrova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This whitepaper presents the research priorities decided on by attendees of the 2022 Town
Meeting for Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons and Neutrinos, which took place December …

Slow molecular beams from a cryogenic buffer gas source

AD White, S Popa, J Mellado-Muñoz, NJ Fitch… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We study the properties of a cryogenic buffer gas source that uses a low-temperature two-
stage buffer gas cell to produce very slow beams of ytterbium monofluoride molecules. The …

Cold Collisions of Ro-Vibrationally Excited D2 Molecules

JFE Croft, PG Jambrina, FJ Aoiz, H Guo… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The H2+ H2 system has long been considered a benchmark system for ro-vibrational energy
transfer in bimolecular collisions. However, most studies thus far have focused on collisions …

Quantum control of molecules for fundamental physics

D Mitra, KH Leung, T Zelevinsky - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The extraordinary success in laser cooling, trapping, and coherent manipulation of atoms
has energized the efforts in extending this exquisite control to molecules. Not only are …

Electrostatic focusing of cold and heavy molecules for the ACME electron EDM search

X Wu, P Hu, Z Han, DG Ang… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The current best upper limit for electron electric dipole moment (EDM),| de|< 1.1× 10− 29 e
cm (90% confidence), was set by the ACME Collaboration in 2018. The ACME experiment …

Design of a ring-shaped traveling-wave Zeeman decelerator for both light and heavy molecules

Y Ji, Q Liu, Y Liu, T Yang, S Hou, J Yin - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Taming a broader range of molecular species with large density has been a long-standing
goal in molecular science. Heavy molecules with masses greater than 100 amu are of …