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 …

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 …

Scalable spin squeezing in a dipolar Rydberg atom array

G Bornet, G Emperauger, C Chen, B Ye, M Block… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The standard quantum limit bounds the precision of measurements that can be achieved by
ensembles of uncorrelated particles. Fundamentally, this limit arises from the non …

On-demand entanglement of molecules in a reconfigurable optical tweezer array

CM Holland, Y Lu, LW Cheuk - Science, 2023 - science.org
Entanglement is crucial to many quantum applications, including quantum information
processing, quantum simulation, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Because of their rich …

Two-axis twisting using Floquet-engineered XYZ spin models with polar molecules

C Miller, AN Carroll, J Lin, H Hirzler, H Gao, H Zhou… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Polar molecules confined in an optical lattice are a versatile platform to explore spin-motion
dynamics based on strong, long-range dipolar interactions,. The precise tunability of Ising …

Quantum sensing and metrology for fundamental physics with molecules

D DeMille, NR Hutzler, AM Rey, T Zelevinsky - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum sensing and metrology use coherent superposition states of quantum systems to
detect and measure physical effects of interest. Their sensitivity is typically limited by the …

Formation of ultracold molecules by merging optical tweezers

DK Ruttley, A Guttridge, S Spence, RC Bird… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical
tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom. Both atoms are …

Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules

PD Gregory, LM Fernley, AL Tao, SL Bromley, J Stepp… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold polar molecules combine a rich structure of long-lived internal states with access to
controllable long-range anisotropic dipole–dipole interactions. In particular, the rotational …

An optical tweezer array of ultracold polyatomic molecules

NB Vilas, P Robichaud, C Hallas, GK Li, L Anderegg… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Polyatomic molecules have rich structural features that make them uniquely suited to
applications in quantum information science,–, quantum simulation,–, ultracold chemistry …

Entanglement and iSWAP gate between molecular qubits

LRB Picard, AJ Park, GE Patenotte, S Gebretsadkan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum computation and simulation rely on long-lived qubits with controllable interactions.
Trapped polar molecules have been proposed as a promising quantum computing platform …