Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules

AM Kaufman, KK Ni - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Single atoms and molecules can be trapped in tightly focused beams of light that form
'optical tweezers', affording exquisite capabilities for the control and detection of individual …

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 …

Ytterbium nuclear-spin qubits in an optical tweezer array

A Jenkins, JW Lis, A Senoo, WF McGrew, AM Kaufman - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We report on the realization of a fast, scalable, and high-fidelity qubit architecture, based on
Yb 171 atoms in an optical tweezer array. We demonstrate several attractive properties of …

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 **, 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 …

Tunable itinerant spin dynamics with polar molecules

JR Li, K Matsuda, C Miller, AN Carroll, WG Tobias… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Strongly interacting spins underlie many intriguing phenomena and applications,,–ranging
from magnetism to quantum information processing. Interacting spins combined with motion …

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 …

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 …

Heating a dipolar quantum fluid into a solid

J Sánchez-Baena, C Politi, F Maucher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Raising the temperature of a material enhances the thermal motion of particles. Such an
increase in thermal energy commonly leads to the melting of a solid into a fluid and …