Transition from a polaronic condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of heteronuclear molecules

M Duda, XY Chen, A Schindewolf, R Bause… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay of quantum statistics and interactions in atomic Bose–Fermi mixtures leads to a
phase diagram markedly different from pure fermionic or bosonic systems. However …

Dipolar evaporation of reactive molecules to below the Fermi temperature

G Valtolina, K Matsuda, WG Tobias, JR Li, L De Marco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The control of molecules is key to the investigation of quantum phases, in which rich
degrees of freedom can be used to encode information and strong interactions can be …

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 …

Sub-Doppler Cooling and Compressed Trap** of YO Molecules at Temperatures

S Ding, Y Wu, IA Finneran, JJ Burau, J Ye - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Complex molecular structure demands customized solutions to laser cooling by extending
its general set of principles and practices. Compared with other laser-cooled molecules …

Evaporation of microwave-shielded polar molecules to quantum degeneracy

A Schindewolf, R Bause, XY Chen, M Duda, T Karman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Ultracold polar molecules offer strong electric dipole moments and rich internal structure,
which makes them ideal building blocks to explore exotic quantum matter,,,,,,,–, implement …

Coherently forming a single molecule in an optical trap

X He, K Wang, J Zhuang, P Xu, X Gao, R Guo, C Sheng… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Ultracold single molecules have wide-ranging potential applications, such as ultracold
chemistry, precision measurements, quantum simulation, and quantum computation …

Collisions between ultracold molecules and atoms in a magnetic trap

S Jurgilas, A Chakraborty, CJH Rich, L Caldwell… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We prepare mixtures of ultracold CaF molecules and Rb atoms in a magnetic trap and study
their inelastic collisions. When the atoms are prepared in the spin-stretched state and the …

Dynamical generation of spin squeezing in ultracold dipolar molecules

T Bilitewski, L De Marco, JR Li, K Matsuda… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study a bulk fermionic dipolar molecular gas in the quantum degenerate regime
confined in a two-dimensional geometry. Using two rotational states of the molecules, we …

Preparation of a quantum degenerate mixture of molecules and atoms

J Cao, H Yang, Z Su, XY Wang, J Rui, B Zhao, JW Pan - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We report on the preparation of a quantum degenerate mixture of Na 23 K 40 molecules and
K 40 atoms. A deeply degenerate atomic mixture of Na 23 and K 40 atoms with a large …