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 …

Laser cooling and trap**,, and magneto-optical trap** methods in particular, have
enabled groundbreaking advances in science, including Bose–Einstein condensation …

Polyatomic molecules have rich structural features that make them uniquely suited to
applications in quantum information science,–, quantum simulation,–, ultracold chemistry …

We report optical trap** of a polyatomic molecule, calcium monohydroxide (CaOH). CaOH
molecules from a magneto-optical trap are sub-Doppler laser cooled to 20 (3) μ K in free …

Molecular design principles provide guidelines for augmenting a molecule with a smaller
group of atoms to realize a desired property or function. We demonstrate that these concepts …

By reducing both the internal and translational temperature of any species down to a few
kelvins, the buffer-gas-cooling (BGC) technique has the potential to dramatically improve the …

Polyatomic molecules have been identified as sensitive probes of charge-parity violating
and parity violating physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). For example, many linear …

A study of the intensity-borrowing mechanisms important to optical cycling transitions in
laser-coolable polyatomic molecules arising from non-adiabatic coupling, contributions …

We present a robust, continuous molecular decelerator that employs high magnetic fields
and few optical pum** steps. CaOH molecules are slowed, accumulating at low velocities …

We have developed and demonstrated a scheme to achieve rotationally closed photon
cycling in polyatomic molecules with complex hyperfine structure and sensitivity to hadronic …