Single atoms and molecules can be trapped in tightly focused beams of light that form
'optical tweezers', affording exquisite capabilities for the control and detection of individual …

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 …

Entanglement is crucial to many quantum applications, including quantum information
processing, quantum simulation, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Because of their rich …

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 …

We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical
tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom. Both atoms are …

Collisional resonances are important tools that have been used to modify interactions in
ultracold gases, for realizing previously unknown Hamiltonians in quantum simulations, for …

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 …

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

Control over the quantum states of individual molecules is crucial in the quest to harness
their rich internal structure and dipolar interactions for applications in quantum science. In …

Complex molecular structure demands customized solutions to laser cooling by extending
its general set of principles and practices. Compared with other laser-cooled molecules …