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 …

Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules

L Anderegg, S Burchesky, Y Bao, SS Yu, T Karman… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Harnessing the potential wide-ranging quantum science applications of molecules will
require control of their interactions. Here, we used microwave radiation to directly engineer …

Microwave shielding of bosonic NaRb molecules

J Lin, G Chen, M Jin, 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 …

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 …

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 …

Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules

PD Gregory, JA Blackmore, SL Bromley, JM Hutson… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum states with long-lived coherence are essential for quantum computation,
simulation and metrology. The nuclear spin states of ultracold molecules prepared in the …

Bimolecular chemistry in the ultracold regime

Y Liu, KK Ni - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics techniques allowed the cooling of simple
molecules down to the ultracold regime (1 mK) and opened opportunities to study chemical …