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 …

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 …

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 …

Continuous symmetry breaking in a two-dimensional Rydberg array

C Chen, G Bornet, M Bintz, G Emperauger, L Leclerc… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking underlies much of our classification of phases of matter
and their associated transitions,–. The nature of the underlying symmetry being broken …

Dipolar quantum solids emerging in a Hubbard quantum simulator

L Su, A Douglas, M Szurek, R Groth, SF Ozturk… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum mechanical many-body systems, long-range and anisotropic interactions
promote rich spatial structure and can lead to quantum frustration, giving rise to a wealth of …

Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules

L Christakis, JS Rosenberg, R Raj, S Chi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic quantum systems with interacting constituents play an important role in quantum
information processing and in explaining fundamental phenomena in many-body physics …

Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid

E Casotti, E Poli, L Klaus, A Litvinov, C Ulm, C Politi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Supersolids are states of matter that spontaneously break two continuous symmetries:
translational invariance owing to the appearance of a crystal structure and phase invariance …

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 …

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 …

Fast single atom imaging for optical lattice arrays

L Su, A Douglas, M Szurek, AH Hébert, A Krahn… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
High-resolution fluorescence imaging of ultracold atoms and molecules is paramount to
performing quantum simulation and computation in optical lattices and tweezers. Imaging …