Direct laser cooling of polyatomic molecules

BL Augenbraun, L Anderegg, C Hallas… - Advances in Atomic …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Magneto-optical trapping and sub-Doppler cooling of a polyatomic molecule

NB Vilas, C Hallas, L Anderegg, P Robichaud… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Laser cooling and trapping,, and magneto-optical trapping methods in particular, have
enabled groundbreaking advances in science, including Bose–Einstein condensation …

Laser cooling and trapping molecules

D McCarron - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The extension of laser cooling and trapping techniques from atoms to molecules is currently
the subject of intense and growing interest. Molecular laser cooling and trapping offers a …

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 …

Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules

L Anderegg, S Burchesky, Y Bao, SS Yu, T Karman… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Harnessing the potential wide-ranging quantum science applications of molecules will
require control of their interactions. Here, we used microwave radiation to directly engineer …

Direct laser cooling of a symmetric top molecule

D Mitra, NB Vilas, C Hallas, L Anderegg… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Ultracold polyatomic molecules have potentially wide-ranging applications in quantum
simulation and computation, particle physics, and quantum chemistry. For atoms and small …

Precision measurement of time-reversal symmetry violation with laser-cooled polyatomic molecules

I Kozyryev, NR Hutzler - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Precision searches for time-reversal symmetry violating interactions in polar molecules are
extremely sensitive probes of high energy physics beyond the standard model. To extend …

Laser cooling of optically trapped molecules

L Anderegg, BL Augenbraun, Y Bao, S Burchesky… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Ultracold molecules are ideal platforms for many important applications, ranging from
quantum simulation,,,–and quantum information processing, to precision tests of …

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 …

Sisyphus laser cooling of a polyatomic molecule

I Kozyryev, L Baum, K Matsuda, BL Augenbraun… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We perform magnetically assisted Sisyphus laser cooling of the triatomic free radical
strontium monohydroxide (SrOH). This is achieved with principal optical cycling in the …