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 …

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 …

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 …

Microwave shielding of bosonic NaRb molecules

J Lin, G Chen, M **, Z Shi, F Deng, W Zhang… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in creating and manipulating ground-
state ultracold polar molecules. However, the two-body loss regardless of the chemical …

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 …

Ultracold sticky collisions: theoretical and experimental status

R Bause, A Christianen, A Schindewolf… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Collisional complexes, which are formed as intermediate states in molecular collisions, are
typically short-lived and decay within picoseconds. However, in ultracold collisions involving …

Creation of an ultracold gas of triatomic molecules from an atom–diatomic molecule mixture

H Yang, J Cao, Z Su, J Rui, B Zhao, JW Pan - Science, 2022 - science.org
In recent years, there has been notable progress in the preparation and control of ultracold
gases of diatomic molecules. The next experimental challenge is the production of ultracold …

Enhanced quantum state transfer via feedforward cancellation of optical phase noise

BP Maddox, JM Mortlock, TR Hepworth, AP Raghuram… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
Many experimental platforms for quantum science depend on state control via laser fields.
Frequently, however, the control fidelity is limited by optical phase noise. This is exacerbated …

Electroassociation of ultracold dipolar molecules into tetramer field-linked states

G Quéméner, JL Bohn, JFE Croft - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The presence of electric or microwave fields can modify the long-range forces between
ultracold dipolar molecules in such a way as to engineer weakly bound states of molecule …

Effective potential and superfluidity of microwave-shielded polar molecules

F Deng, XY Chen, XY Luo, W Zhang, S Yi, T Shi - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We analytically show that the effective interaction potential between microwave-shielded
polar molecules consists of an anisotropic van der Waals–like shielding core and a modified …