Quantum control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

Towards chemistry at absolute zero

BR Heazlewood, TP Softley - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The prospect of cooling matter down to temperatures that are close to absolute zero raises
intriguing questions about how chemical reactivity changes under these extreme conditions …

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 …

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 …

Opportunities in flavour physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

A Cerri, VV Gligorov, S Malvezzi, JM Camalich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Motivated by the success of the flavour physics programme carried out over the last decade
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we characterize in detail the physics potential of its High …

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 …

Assembly of a rovibrational ground state molecule in an optical tweezer

WB Cairncross, JT Zhang, LRB Picard, Y Yu, K Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate the coherent creation of a single NaCs molecule in its rotational,
vibrational, and electronic (rovibronic) ground state in an optical tweezer. Starting with a …

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 …

3D magneto-optical trap of yttrium monoxide

AL Collopy, S Ding, Y Wu, IA Finneran, L Anderegg… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report three-dimensional trapping of an oxide molecule (YO), using a radio-frequency
magneto-optical trap (MOT). The total number of molecules trapped is∼ 1.5× 10 4, with a …

Laser-cooled polyatomic molecules for improved electron electric dipole moment searches

BL Augenbraun, ZD Lasner, A Frenett… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Doppler and Sisyphus cooling of 174 YbOH are achieved and studied. This polyatomic
molecule has high sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model and represents a new …