Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in physics, chemistry, and beyond

NV Vitanov, AA Rangelov, BW Shore… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

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 …

Dipolar spin-exchange and entanglement between molecules in an optical tweezer array

Y Bao, SS Yu, L Anderegg, E Chae, W Ketterle, KK Ni… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ultracold polar molecules are promising candidate qubits for quantum computing and
quantum simulations. Their long-lived molecular rotational states form robust qubits, and the …

A degenerate Fermi gas of polar molecules

L De Marco, G Valtolina, K Matsuda, WG Tobias… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Experimental realization of a quantum degenerate gas of molecules would provide access
to a wide range of phenomena in molecular and quantum sciences. However, the very …

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 …

Microwave shielding of bosonic NaRb molecules

J Lin, G Chen, M **, 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 …

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules

N Bigagli, W Yuan, S Zhang, B Bulatovic, T Karman… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit intriguing emergent
behaviour. Atomic quantum gases,, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials,–all …

Ultracold Dipolar Gas of Fermionic Molecules in Their Absolute Ground State

JW Park, SA Will, MW Zwierlein - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We report on the creation of an ultracold dipolar gas of fermionic Na 23 K 40 molecules in
their absolute rovibrational and hyperfine ground state. Starting from weakly bound …

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 …

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 …