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Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers (2023)
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Ruttley, D. K., Guttridge, A., Spence, S., Bird, R. C., Le Sueur, C. R., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2023). Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers. Physical Review Letters, 130(22), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.223401

We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom. Both atoms are initially predominantly in the motional ground states of their respectiv... Read More about Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers.

Production of ultracold 87Rb133Cs in the absolute ground state: complete characterisation of the STIRAP transfer (2016)
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Molony, P. K., Gregory, P. D., Kumar, A., Le Sueur, C. R., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2016). Production of ultracold 87Rb133Cs in the absolute ground state: complete characterisation of the STIRAP transfer. ChemPhysChem, 17(22), 3811-3817. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201600501

We present the production of ultracold 87 RbCs molecules in the electronic, rovibrational and hyperfine ground state, using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage to transfer the molecules from a weakly bound Feshbach state. We measure one-way transfer e... Read More about Production of ultracold 87Rb133Cs in the absolute ground state: complete characterisation of the STIRAP transfer.

Measurement of the binding energy of ultracold 87Rb133Cs molecules using an offset-free optical frequency comb (2016)
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Molony, P. . K., Kumar, A., Gregory, P. . D., Kliese, R., Puppe, T., Le Sueur, C. . R., Aldegunde, J., Hutson, J. . M., & Cornish, S. . L. (2016). Measurement of the binding energy of ultracold 87Rb133Cs molecules using an offset-free optical frequency comb. Physical Review A, 94(2), Article 022507. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.94.022507

We report the binding energy of Rb87Cs133 molecules in their rovibrational ground state measured using an offset-free optical frequency comb based on difference frequency generation technology. We create molecules in the absolute ground state using s... Read More about Measurement of the binding energy of ultracold 87Rb133Cs molecules using an offset-free optical frequency comb.

Creation of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State (2014)
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Molony, P. K., Gregory, P. D., Ji, Z., Lu, B., Köppinger, M. P., Le Sueur, C. R., Blackley, C. L., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2014). Creation of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State. Physical Review Letters, 113(25), Article 255301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.113.255301

We report the creation of a sample of over 1000 ultracold Rb 87 Cs 133 molecules in the lowest rovibrational ground state, from an atomic mixture of Rb 87 and Cs 133 , by magnetoassociation on an interspecies Feshbach resonance followed by stimulated... Read More about Creation of Ultracold 87Rb133Cs Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State.

Production of optically trapped 87RbCs Feshbach molecules (2014)
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Köppinger, M. P., McCarron, D. J., Jenkin, D. L., Molony, P. K., Cho, H. W., Cornish, S. L., Le Sueur, C. R., Blackley, C. L., & Hutson, J. M. (2014). Production of optically trapped 87RbCs Feshbach molecules. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 89(3), Article 033604. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.89.033604

We report the production of Feshbach molecules in a crossed-beam dipole trap. A mixture of and is cooled close to quantum degeneracy before an interspecies Feshbach resonance at 197 G is used to associate up to molecules with a temperature of nK. The... Read More about Production of optically trapped 87RbCs Feshbach molecules.

Generating Mesoscopic Bell States via Collisions of Distinguishable Quantum Bright Solitons (2013)
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Gertjerenken, B., Billam, T., Blackley, C., Le Sueur, C., Khaykovich, L., Cornish, S., & Weiss, C. (2013). Generating Mesoscopic Bell States via Collisions of Distinguishable Quantum Bright Solitons. Physical Review Letters, 111(10), Article 100406. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.100406

We investigate numerically the collisions of two distinguishable quantum matter-wave bright solitons in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. We show that such collisions can be used to generate mesoscopic Bell states that can reliably be distinguished fr... Read More about Generating Mesoscopic Bell States via Collisions of Distinguishable Quantum Bright Solitons.

Feshbach resonances in ultracold 85Rb (2013)
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Blackley, C. L., Le Sueur, C. R., Hutson, J. M., McCarron, D. J., Köppinger, M. P., Cho, H.-W., Jenkin, D. L., & Cornish, S. L. (2013). Feshbach resonances in ultracold 85Rb. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 87(3), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.87.033611

We present 17 experimentally confirmed Feshbach resonances in optically trapped 85Rb. Seven of the resonances are in the ground-state channel (f,mf)=(2,+2)+(2,+2) and nine are in the excited-state channel (2,−2)+(2,−2). We find a wide resonance at hi... Read More about Feshbach resonances in ultracold 85Rb.

Feshbach spectroscopy of an ultracold mixture of Rb-85 and Cs-133 (2013)
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Cho, H. W., McCarron, D. J., Koppinger, M. P., Jenkin, D. L., Butler, K. L., Julienne, P. S., Blackley, C. L., Le Sueur, C. R., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2013). Feshbach spectroscopy of an ultracold mixture of Rb-85 and Cs-133. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 87(1), Article 010703(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.87.010703

We report the observation of interspecies Feshbach resonances in an optically trapped mixture of 85Rb and 133Cs. We measure nine resonances in the lowest spin channel for a magnetic field range from 0 to 700 G and show that they are in good agreement... Read More about Feshbach spectroscopy of an ultracold mixture of Rb-85 and Cs-133.