Cold and ultracold molecules in the twenties

TP Softley - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A diversity of experimental techniques has been developed over the last 25 years to create
samples of molecular gases at temperatures close to the Absolute Zero—here we consider …

Direct laser cooling of polyatomic molecules

BL Augenbraun, L Anderegg, C Hallas… - Advances in Atomic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made to extend the tools of laser
cooling and trap** to molecules. Those same tools have recently been applied to …

Absorption-emission codes for atomic and molecular quantum information platforms

SP Jain, ER Hudson, WC Campbell, VV Albert - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Diatomic molecular codes [VV Albert, JP Covey, and J. Preskill, Robust encoding of a qubit
in a molecule, Phys. Rev. X 10, 031050 (2020). PRXHAE 2160-3308 10.1103/PhysRevX …

Dual optical cycling centers mounted on an organic scaffold: New insights from quantum chemistry calculations and symmetry analysis

T Khvorost, P Wójcik, C Chang, M Calvillo… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecules cooled to ultracold temperatures are desirable for applications in fundamental
physics and quantum information science. However, cooling polyatomic molecules with …

Photoswitching molecules functionalized with optical cycling centers provide a novel platform for studying chemical transformations in ultracold molecules

P Wójcik, T Khvorost, G Lao, GZ Zhu… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A novel molecular structure that bridges the fields of molecular optical cycling and molecular
photoswitching is presented. It is based on a photoswitching molecule azobenzene …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral molecule candidates for trapped ion spectroscopy by ab initio calculations: From state preparation to parity violation

A Landau, D Behar, ER Wallach, LF Pašteka… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Parity non-conservation (PNC) due to the weak interaction is predicted to give rise to
enantiomer dependent vibrational constants in chiral molecules, but the phenomenon has …

Laser spectroscopy of aromatic molecules with optical cycling centers: strontium (I) phenoxides

G Lao, GZ Zhu, CE Dickerson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the production and spectroscopic characterization of strontium (I) phenoxide
(SrOC6H5 or SrOPh) and variants featuring electron-withdrawing groups designed to …

Bichromatic imaging of single molecules in an optical tweezer array

CM Holland, Y Lu, LW Cheuk - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We report on a novel bichromatic fluorescent imaging scheme for background-free detection
of single CaF molecules trapped in an optical tweezer array. By collecting fluorescence on …

Extending the large molecule limit: The role of Fermi resonance in develo** a quantum functional group

GZ Zhu, G Lao, CE Dickerson, JR Caram… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polyatomic molecules equipped with optical cycling centers (OCCs), enabling continuous
photon scattering during optical excitation, are exciting candidates for advancing quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Fermat principle, Ramsey theory and metamaterials

M Frenkel, S Shoval, E Bormashenko - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reinterpretation of the Fermat principle governing the propagation of light in media within
the Ramsey theory is suggested. Complete bi-colored graphs corresponding to light …