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 control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

Magneto-optical trap** and sub-Doppler cooling of a polyatomic molecule

NB Vilas, C Hallas, L Anderegg, P Robichaud… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Laser cooling and trap**,, and magneto-optical trap** methods in particular, have
enabled groundbreaking advances in science, including Bose–Einstein condensation …

An optical tweezer array of ultracold molecules

L Anderegg, LW Cheuk, Y Bao, S Burchesky… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ultracold molecules have important applications that range from quantum simulation and
computation to precision measurements probing physics beyond the Standard Model …

Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules

G Arrowsmith-Kron… - Reports on progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a
wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics …

Direct laser cooling of a symmetric top molecule

D Mitra, NB Vilas, C Hallas, L Anderegg… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Ultracold polyatomic molecules have potentially wide-ranging applications in quantum
simulation and computation, particle physics, and quantum chemistry. For atoms and small …

A neonicotinoid insecticide reduces fueling and delays migration in songbirds

ML Eng, BJM Stutchbury, CA Morrissey - Science, 2019 - science.org
Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic insecticides widely used as seed treatments, but little is
known of their effects on migrating birds that forage in agricultural areas. We tracked the …

Opportunities in flavour physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

A Cerri, VV Gligorov, S Malvezzi, JM Camalich… - ar** of an oxide molecule (YO), using a radio-frequency
magneto-optical trap (MOT). The total number of molecules trapped is∼ 1.5× 10 4, with a …