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Optical lattices serve as fundamental building blocks for atomic quantum technology. However, the scale and resolution of these lattices are diffraction-limited to the light wavelength. In conventional lattices, achieving tight confinement…
Buffer-gas cooling is a universal cooling technique for molecules and used for various purposes. One of its applications is using molecules inside a buffer-gas cell for low-temperature spectroscopy. Although a high-intensity signal is…