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Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules (2024)
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Gregory, P. D., Fernley, L. M., Tao, A. L., Bromley, S. L., Stepp, J., Zhang, Z., …Cornish, S. L. (2024). Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules. Nature Physics, 20(3), 415-421. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02328-5

Ultracold polar molecules combine a rich structure of long-lived internal states with access to controllable long-range anisotropic dipole–dipole interactions. In particular, the rotational states of polar molecules confined in optical tweezers or op... Read More about Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules.

An association sequence suitable for producing ground-state RbCs molecules in optical lattices (2023)
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Das, A., Gregory, P. D., Takekoshi, T., Fernley, L., Landini, M., Hutson, J. M., …Nägerl, H. (2023). An association sequence suitable for producing ground-state RbCs molecules in optical lattices. SciPost Physics, 15(6), Article 220. https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.6.220

Molecule-molecule and atom-molecule collisions with ultracold RbCs molecules (2021)
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Gregory, P. D., Blackmore, J. A., Frye, M. D., Fernley, L. M., Bromley, S. L., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2021). Molecule-molecule and atom-molecule collisions with ultracold RbCs molecules. New Journal of Physics, 23, Article 125004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3c63

Understanding ultracold collisions involving molecules is of fundamental importance for current experiments, where inelastic collisions typically limit the lifetime of molecular ensembles in optical traps. Here we present a broad study of optically t... Read More about Molecule-molecule and atom-molecule collisions with ultracold RbCs molecules.

Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules (2021)
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Gregory, P. D., Blackmore, J. A., Bromley, S. L., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2021). Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules. Nature Physics, 17(10), 1149-1153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01328-7

Quantum states with long-lived coherence are essential for quantum computation, simulation and metrology. The nuclear spin states of ultracold molecules prepared in the singlet rovibrational ground state are an excellent candidate for encoding and st... Read More about Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules.

Controlling the ac Stark effect of RbCs with dc electric and magnetic fields (2020)
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Blackmore, J. A., Sawant, R., Gregory, P. D., Bromley, S. L., Aldegunde, J., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2020). Controlling the ac Stark effect of RbCs with dc electric and magnetic fields. Physical Review A, 102(5), Article 053316. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.053316

We investigate the effects of static electric and magnetic fields on the differential ac Stark shifts for microwave transitions in ultracold bosonic 87Rb133Cs molecules, for light of wavelength λ=1064nm. Near this wavelength we observe unexpected two... Read More about Controlling the ac Stark effect of RbCs with dc electric and magnetic fields.

Coherent Manipulation of the Internal State of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules with Multiple Microwave Fields (2020)
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Blackmore, J., Gregory, P., Bromley, S., & Cornish, S. (2020). Coherent Manipulation of the Internal State of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules with Multiple Microwave Fields. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 47(22), 27529-27538. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp04651e

We explore coherent multi-photon processes in 87Rb133Cs molecules using 3-level lambda and ladder configurations of rotational and hyperfine states, and discuss their relevance to future applications in quantum computation and quantum simulation. In... Read More about Coherent Manipulation of the Internal State of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules with Multiple Microwave Fields.

Sticky collisions of ultracold RbCs molecules (2019)
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Gregory, P. D., Frye, M. D., Blackmore, J. A., Bridge, E. M., Sawant, R., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2019). Sticky collisions of ultracold RbCs molecules. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 3104. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11033-y

Understanding and controlling collisions is crucial to the burgeoning field of ultracold molecules. All experiments so far have observed fast loss of molecules from the trap. However, the dominant mechanism for collisional loss is not well understood... Read More about Sticky collisions of ultracold RbCs molecules.