Cooling atoms to ultralow temperatures has produced a wealth of opportunities in
fundamental physics, precision metrology, and quantum science. The more recent …

The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

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

The standard model of particle physics accurately describes all particle physics
measurements made so far in the laboratory. However, it is unable to answer many …

Ultracold polar molecules are promising candidate qubits for quantum computing and
quantum simulations. Their long-lived molecular rotational states form robust qubits, and the …

Matter-wave interference experiments provide a direct confirmation of the quantum
superposition principle, a hallmark of quantum theory, and thereby constrain possible …

This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

The Standard Model of particle physics is known to be incomplete. Extensions to the
Standard Model, such as weak-scale supersymmetry, posit the existence of new particles …

Ultracold polyatomic molecules have potentially wide-ranging applications in quantum
simulation and computation, particle physics, and quantum chemistry. For atoms and small …

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 …