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 …

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 …

Ultracold chemistry as a testbed for few-body physics

T Karman, M Tomza, J Pérez-Ríos - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold atoms, molecules and ions provide a unique playground to explore chemistry at
ultracold temperatures. In this Review, we discuss what makes these systems particularly …

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 …

A Feshbach resonance in collisions between triplet ground-state molecules

JJ Park, YK Lu, AO Jamison, TV Tscherbul, W Ketterle - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Collisional resonances are important tools that have been used to modify interactions in
ultracold gases, for realizing previously unknown Hamiltonians in quantum simulations, for …

Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions

YX Liu, L Zhu, J Luke, JJA Houwman, MC Babin… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Chemical reactions, in which bonds break and form, are highly dynamic quantum processes.
A fundamental question is whether coherence can be preserved in chemical reactions and …

Ultracold gas of dipolar NaCs ground state molecules

I Stevenson, AZ Lam, N Bigagli, C Warner, W Yuan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report on the creation of bosonic NaCs molecules in their absolute rovibrational ground
state via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. We create ultracold gases with up to 22 000 …

Ultracold sticky collisions: Theoretical and experimental status

R Bause, A Christianen, A Schindewolf… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Collisional complexes, which are formed as intermediate states in molecular collisions, are
typically short-lived and decay within picoseconds. However, in ultracold collisions involving …

Creation of an ultracold gas of triatomic molecules from an atom–diatomic molecule mixture

H Yang, J Cao, Z Su, J Rui, B Zhao, JW Pan - Science, 2022 - science.org
In recent years, there has been notable progress in the preparation and control of ultracold
gases of diatomic molecules. The next experimental challenge is the production of ultracold …

Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules

PD Gregory, JA Blackmore, SL Bromley, JM Hutson… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum states with long-lived coherence are essential for quantum computation,
simulation and metrology. The nuclear spin states of ultracold molecules prepared in the …