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 …

Direct observation of bimolecular reactions of ultracold KRb molecules

MG Hu, Y Liu, DD Grimes, YW Lin, AH Gheorghe… - Science, 2019 - science.org
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 …

Transition from a polaronic condensate to a degenerate Fermi gas of heteronuclear molecules

M Duda, XY Chen, A Schindewolf, R Bause… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay of quantum statistics and interactions in atomic Bose–Fermi mixtures leads to a
phase diagram markedly different from pure fermionic or bosonic systems. However …

Dipolar evaporation of reactive molecules to below the Fermi temperature

G Valtolina, K Matsuda, WG Tobias, JR Li, L De Marco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Resonant collisional shielding of reactive molecules using electric fields

K Matsuda, L De Marco, JR Li, WG Tobias, G Valtolina… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Full control of molecular interactions, including reactive losses, would open new frontiers in
quantum science. We demonstrate extreme tunability of ultracold chemical reaction rates by …

Photo-excitation of long-lived transient intermediates in ultracold reactions

Y Liu, MG Hu, MA Nichols, DD Grimes, T Karman… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
In many chemical reactions, the transformation from reactants to products is mediated by
transient intermediate complexes. For gas-phase reactions involving molecules with a few …

Towards chemistry at absolute zero

BR Heazlewood, TP Softley - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The prospect of cooling matter down to temperatures that are close to absolute zero raises
intriguing questions about how chemical reactivity changes under these extreme conditions …

Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms

P Weckesser, F Thielemann, D Wiater… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The control of physical systems and their dynamics on the level of individual quanta
underpins both fundamental science and quantum technologies. Trapped atomic and …

Precision test of statistical dynamics with state-to-state ultracold chemistry

Y Liu, MG Hu, MA Nichols, D Yang, D Xie, H Guo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Chemical reactions represent a class of quantum problems that challenge both the current
theoretical understanding and computational capabilities. Reactions that occur at ultralow …