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Polar polyatomic molecules provide an ideal but largely unexplored platform to encode qubits in rotational states. Here, we trap cold (100-600 mK) formaldehyde (H$_2$CO) inside an electric box and perform a Ramsey-type experiment to observe…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Maximilian Löw , Martin Ibrügger , Gerhard Rempe , Martin Zeppenfeld

Physical quantum systems are commonly composed of more than two levels and offer the capacity to encode information in higher-dimensional spaces beyond the qubit, starting with the three-level qutrit. Here, we encode neutral-atom qutrits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Joseph Lindon , Arina Tashchilina , Logan W. Cooke , Lindsay J. LeBlanc

We propose a novel physical realization of a quantum computer. The qubits are electric dipole moments of ultracold diatomic molecules, oriented along or against an external electric field. Individual molecules are held in a 1-D trap array,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. DeMille

Chemical reactions can be surprisingly efficient at ultracold temperatures ( < 1mK) due to the wave nature of atoms and molecules. The study of reactions in the ultracold regime is a new research frontier enabled by cooling and trapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Lee R. Liu , Jessie T. Zhang , Yichao Yu , Nicholas R. Hutzler , Yu Liu , Till Rosenband , Kang-Kuen Ni

Ultracold molecules offer entirely new possibilities for the control of quantum processes due to their rich internal structure. Recently, near quantum degenerate gases of molecules have been prepared in their rovibronic ground state. For…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Ospelkaus , K. -K. Ni , G. Quemener , B. Neyenhuis , D. Wang , M. H. G. de Miranda , J. L. Bohn , J. Ye , D. S. Jin

We investigate the properties of two interacting ultracold polar molecules described as distinguishable quantum rigid rotors, trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic potential. The molecules interact via a multichannel two-body contact…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Anna Dawid , Maciej Lewenstein , Michał Tomza

The paradigm behind digital quantum computing inherits the idea of using binary information processing. Nature in fact gives much more rich structures of physical objects that can be used for encoding information, which is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Evgeniy O. Kiktenko , Anastasiia S. Nikolaeva , Aleksey K. Fedorov

Ultracold molecules, because of their rich internal structures and interactions, have been proposed as a promising platform for quantum science and precision measurement. Direct laser-cooling promises to be a rapid and efficient way to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yukai Lu , Samuel J. Li , Connor M. Holland , Lawrence W. Cheuk

We investigate the microwave spectra of ultracold alkali metal dimers in magnetic, electric and combined fields, taking account of the hyperfine structure due to the nuclear spins. We consider the molecules 41K87Rb and 7Li133Cs, which are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Hong Ran , J. Aldegunde , Jeremy M. Hutson

Ultracold polar molecules are an ideal platform for studying many-body physics with long-range dipolar interactions. Experiments in this field have progressed enormously, and several groups are pursuing advanced apparatus for manipulation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Jacob P. Covey , Luigi De Marco , Oscar L. Acevedo , Ana Maria Rey , Jun Ye

We design dipolar quantum many-body Hamiltonians that will facilitate the realization of exotic quantum phases under current experimental conditions achieved for polar molecules. The main idea is to modulate both single-body potential…

We produce an ultracold and dense sample of rovibronic ground state Cs_2 molecules close to the regime of quantum degeneracy, in a single hyperfine level, in the presence of an optical lattice. The molecules are individually trapped, in the…

Polar molecules are an emerging platform for quantum technologies based on their long-range electric dipole-dipole interactions, which open new possibilities for quantum information processing and the quantum simulation of strongly…

The challenge of building a scalable quantum processor requires consolidation of the conflicting requirements of achieving coherent control and preservation of quantum coherence in a large scale quantum system. Moreover, the system should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Andre , D. DeMille , J. M. Doyle , M. D. Lukin , S. E. Maxwell , P. Rabl , R. Schoelkopf , P. Zoller

We describe a novel scheme to implement scalable quantum information processing using Li-Cs molecular state to entangle $^{6}$Li and $^{133}$Cs ultracold atoms held in independent optical lattices. The $^{6}$Li atoms will act as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Kathy-Anne Brickman Soderberg , Nathan Gemelke , Cheng Chin

We show that an array of polar molecules interacting with Rydberg atoms is a promising hybrid system for scalable quantum computation. Quantum information is stored in long-lived hyperfine or rotational states of molecules which interact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Chi Zhang , M. R. Tarbutt

Fully internal and motional state controlled and individually manipulable polar molecules are desirable for many quantum science applications leveraging the rich state space and intrinsic interactions of molecules. While prior efforts at…

We provide an introduction to the experimental physics of quantum gases. At the low densities of ultracold quantum gases, confinement can be understood from single-particle physics, and interactions can be understood from two-body physics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 Dylan Jervis , Joseph H. Thywissen

Ultracold polar molecules in optical lattices or tweezer arrays offer a promising platform for quantum information processing and simulation, thanks to their rich internal structure and long-range dipolar interactions. Recent experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Matteo Bergonzoni , Sven Jandura , Guido Pupillo

The dynamics of a bilayer system of ultracold dipolar molecules exhibits classical and quantum glassy behavior, characterized by long tails in the relaxation time and dynamical heterogeneity. In the proposed setup, quantum fluctuations are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-09 Wolfgang Lechner , Peter Zoller