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 …

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 …

Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit intriguing emergent
behaviour. Atomic quantum gases,, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials,–all …

Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in creating and manipulating ground-
state ultracold polar molecules. However, the two-body loss regardless of the chemical …

Femtochemistry techniques have been instrumental in accessing the short time scales
necessary to probe transient intermediates in chemical reactions. In this study, we took the …

Harnessing the potential wide-ranging quantum science applications of molecules will
require control of their interactions. Here, we used microwave radiation to directly engineer …

The control of molecules is key to the investigation of quantum phases, in which rich
degrees of freedom can be used to encode information and strong interactions can be …

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 …

Collisional complexes, which are formed as intermediate states in molecular collisions, are
typically short-lived and decay within picoseconds. However, in ultracold collisions involving …

Quantum states with long-lived coherence are essential for quantum computation,
simulation and metrology. The nuclear spin states of ultracold molecules prepared in the …