Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules
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Anderegg, Loïc
Burchesky, Sean
Bao, Yicheng
Yu, Scarlett S.
Karman, Tijs
Chae, Eunmi
Ni, Kang-Kuen
Ketterle, Wolfgang
Doyle, John M.
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August 2021
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Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Anderegg, Loïc, Burchesky, Sean, Bao, Yicheng, Yu, Scarlett S, Karman, Tijs et al. 2021. "Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules." Science, 373 (6556).
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Shielding ultracold molecules
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
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
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MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg9502
