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We propose a scheme for laser cooling of negatively charged molecules. We briefly summarise the requirements for such laser cooling and we identify a number of potential candidates. A detailed computation study with C$\_2^-$, the most…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Pauline Yzombard , Mehdi Hamamda , Sebastian Gerber , Michael Doser , Daniel Comparat

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 offer several advantages for these applications. They have a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-11 Simon L. Cornish , Michael R. Tarbutt , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

Laser-cooled atoms coupled to nanophotonic structures constitute a powerful research platform for the exploration of new regimes of light-matter interaction. While the initialization of the atomic internal degrees of freedom in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Y. Meng , A. Dareau , P. Schneeweiss , A. Rauschenbeutel

The production of molecules from dual species atomic quantum gases has enabled experiments that employ molecules at nanoKelvin temperatures. As a result, every degree of freedom of these molecules is in a well-defined quantum state and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-27 Jacob P. Covey , Steven A. Moses , Jun Ye , Deborah S. Jin

A laser cooling method for trapped atoms is described which achieves ground state cooling by exploiting quantum interference in a driven Lambda-shaped arrangement of atomic levels. The scheme is technically simpler than existing methods of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Giovanna Morigi , Juergen Eschner , Christoph H. Keitel

Graph-based linear scaling electronic structure theory for quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics simulations is adapted to the most recent shadow potential formulations of extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, including…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Christian F. A. Negre , Michael E. Wall , Anders M. N. Niklasson

Currently laser cooling schemes are fundamentally based on the weak coupling regime. This requirement sets the trap frequency as an upper bound to the cooling rate. In this work we present a numerical study that shows the feasibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Machnes , M. B. Plenio , B. Reznik , A. M. Steane , A. Retzker

Recently, laser cooling methods have been extended from atoms to molecules. The complex rotational and vibrational energy level structure of molecules makes laser cooling difficult, but these difficulties have been overcome and molecules…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 M. R. Tarbutt

Ultra-cold atomic gases are unique in terms of the degree of controllability, both for internal and external degrees of freedom. This makes it possible to use them for the study of complex quantum many-body phenomena. However in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Rick Mukherjee , Frederic Sauvage , Harry Xie , Robert Löw , Florian Mintert

The direct laser cooling of neutral diatomic molecules in molecular beams suggests that trapped molecular ions can also be laser cooled. The long storage time and spatial localization of trapped molecular ions provides the opportunity for…

We perform a quantitative analysis of the cooling dynamics of three-level atomic systems interacting with two distinct lasers. Employing sparse-matrix techniques, we find numerical solutions to the fully quantized master equation in steady…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josh W. Dunn , J. W. Thomsen , Chris H. Greene , Flavio C. Cruz

Although the study of ultracold quantum gases trapped by light is a prominent direction of modern research, the quantum properties of light were widely neglected in this field. Quantum optics with quantum gases closes this gap and addresses…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-09 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

In this review, we discuss the impact of the development of lasers on ultracold atoms and molecules and their applications. After a brief historical review of laser cooling and Bose-Einstein condensation, we present important applications…

Experimental platforms based on ultracold atomic gases have significantly advanced the quantum simulation of complex systems, yet the exploration of phenomena driven by long-range interactions remains a formidable challenge. Currently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-19 Mariano Bonifacio , Francesco Piazza , Tobias Donner

The semiclassical theory of laser cooling is applied for the analysis of cooling of unbound atoms with the values of the ground and exited state angular moments 1/2 in a one-dimensional nondissipative optical lattice. We show that in the…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-05 N. A. Matveeva , A. V. Taichenachev , A. M. Tumaikin , V. I. Yudin

Laser cooled atoms are central to modern precision measurements. They are also increasingly important as an enabling technology for experimental cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum information processing and matter wave interferometry.…

The extraordinary success in laser cooling, trapping, and coherent manipulation of atoms has energized the efforts in extending this exquisite control to molecules. Not only are molecules ubiquitous in nature, but the control of their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 D. Mitra , K. H. Leung , T. Zelevinsky

In drug discovery, knowledge of the graph structure of chemical compounds is essential. Many thousands of scientific articles in chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences have investigated chemical compounds, but in cases the details of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-16 Martijn Oldenhof , Adam Arany , Yves Moreau , Jaak Simm

Laser cooling of molecules employing broadband optical pumping involves a timescale separation between laser excitation and spontaneous emission. Here, we optimize the optical pumping step using shaped laser pulses. We derive two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Daniel M. Reich , Christiane P. Koch

This paper introduces an efficient quantum computing method for reducing special graphs in the context of the graph coloring problem. The special graphs considered include both symmetric and non-symmetric graphs where the axis passes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Lord Sen , Shyamapada Mukherjee