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 …

Cold trapped molecular ions and hybrid platforms for ions and neutral particles

M Deiß, S Willitsch, J Hecker Denschlag - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Recent years have seen the emergence of a new generation of collision and cold-chemistry
experiments in which cold atoms and ions are brought into contact in a controlled way in …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-site integrated optical addressing of trapped ions

J Kwon, WJ Setzer, M Gehl, N Karl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the most effective ways to advance the performance of quantum computers and
quantum sensors is to increase the number of qubits or quantum resources in the system. A …

Quantum control of ion-atom collisions beyond the ultracold regime

MZ Walewski, MD Frye, O Katz, M Pinkas, R Ozeri… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Tunable scattering resonances are crucial for controlling atomic and molecular systems.
However, their use has so far been limited to ultracold temperatures. These conditions …

Fermi polaron in atom-ion hybrid systems

R Pessoa, SA Vitiello, LAP Ardila - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Atom-ion hybrid systems are promising platforms for the quantum simulation of polaron
physics in certain quantum materials. Here, we investigate the ionic Fermi polaron, a …

Competing excitation quenching and charge exchange in ultracold Li-Ba+ collisions

X **ng, P Weckesser, F Thielemann… - Journal of Physics B …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Hybrid atom-ion systems are a rich and powerful platform for studying chemical reactions, as
they feature both excellent control over the electronic state preparation and readout as well …

Cooling dynamics of a free ion in a Bose-Einstein condensate

L Oghittu, J Simonet, P Wessels-Staarmann… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We investigate the dynamics of an ion moving through a homogeneous Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) after an initial momentum is imparted. For this, we derive a master …

Metastable doubly charged Rydberg trimers

DJ Bosworth, MT Eiles, P Schmelcher - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We examine an effectively one-electron system with three positive nuclei composed of a Rb*
87 Rydberg atom interacting with a pair of Rb+ 87 ions and predict the existence of …

Observation of confinement-induced resonances in a 3D lattice

D Capecchi, C Cantillano, MJ Mark, F Meinert… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report on the observation of confinement-induced resonances for strong three-
dimensional (3D) confinement in a lattice potential. Starting from a Mott-insulator state with …

Exploring atom-ion Feshbach resonances below the s-wave limit

F Thielemann, J Siemund, D von Schoenfeld… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Revealing the quantum properties of matter requires a high degree of experimental control
accompanied by a profound theoretical understanding. At ultracold temperatures, quantities …