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 …

Creation of an Ultracold Gas of Ground-State Dipolar Molecules

M Guo, B Zhu, B Lu, X Ye, F Wang, R Vexiau… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report the successful production of an ultracold sample of absolute ground-state Na 23
Rb 87 molecules. Starting from weakly bound Feshbach molecules formed via …

Resonant collisional shielding of reactive molecules using electric fields

K Matsuda, L De Marco, JR Li, WG Tobias, G Valtolina… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Full control of molecular interactions, including reactive losses, would open new frontiers in
quantum science. We demonstrate extreme tunability of ultracold chemical reaction rates by …

Tuning of dipolar interactions and evaporative cooling in a three-dimensional molecular quantum gas

JR Li, WG Tobias, K Matsuda, C Miller, G Valtolina… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Ultracold polar molecules possess long-range, anisotropic and tunable dipolar interactions,
providing opportunities to probe quantum phenomena that are inaccessible with existing …

Laser-cooled molecules

NJ Fitch, MR Tarbutt - Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
The last few years have seen rapid progress in the application of laser cooling to molecules.
In this review, we examine what kinds of molecules can be laser cooled, how to design a …

Cold controlled chemistry

RV Krems - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Collisions of molecules in a thermal gas are difficult to control. Thermal motion randomizes
molecular encounters and diminishes the effects of external radiation or static …

Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields

M Lemeshko, RV Krems, JM Doyle, S Kais - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present article is to review the major developments that have led to the
current understanding of molecule–field interactions and experimental methods for …