Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules
Abstract
Ultracold molecules hold promise for a wide range of exciting applications. However, such applications are currently hampered by the limited number of ultracold molecular ensembles that can be created and by their short lifetimes. Anderegg et al . used a microwave dressing field to tune the collisional properties of calcium monofluoride molecules trapped in optical tweezers. This approach allowed a sixfold suppression of inelastic trap-loss collisions. This scheme paves the way for the creation of a variety of long-lived ultracold molecular ensembles. —YS
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Aug 13, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.abg9502
Entities
People
- Eunmi Chae
- John M. Doyle
- Kang-Kuen Ni
- Loic Anderegg
- Scarlett S. Yu
- Sean Burchesky
- Tijs Karman
- Wolfgang Ketterle
- Yicheng Bao
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Harvard University
- Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Korea University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- National Science Foundation
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- United States Department of Energy