Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made to extend the tools of laser
cooling and trapping to molecules. Those same tools have recently been applied to …

A study of the intensity-borrowing mechanisms important to optical cycling transitions in
laser-coolable polyatomic molecules arising from non-adiabatic coupling, contributions …

that have attracted significant attention and promise to reshape the landscape of quantum
information science with a focus on molecular and materials systems. The topics explored …

Volume 54 of the Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Series contains ten
contributions, covering a diversity of subject areas in atomic, molecular and optical physics …

A novel molecular structure that bridges the fields of molecular optical cycling and molecular
photoswitching is presented. It is based on a photoswitching molecule azobenzene …

Polyatomic molecules equipped with optical cycling centers (OCCs), enabling continuous
photon scattering during optical excitation, are exciting candidates for advancing quantum …

A recent progress on laser cooling of molecules is summarized. Since the development
during the 1980s for atomic species, laser cooling has been the very beginning step to cool …

Herein, we show that single molecules containing multiple optical cycling centers (CaO
moieties) can exhibit superradiant phenomena. We demonstrate the accuracy of the Frenkel …

Electronic excitations, induced by lasers, that decay directly to the initial electronic ground
state are called optical cycling transitions. These transitions are used in quantum information …

This dissertation focuses on the development of relativistic electronic structure methods and
their application to molecular systems containing heavy elements. I have developed the …