Conveners
Ultracold Molecules
- Sebastian Will (Columbia University)
- Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
- Chair: H. Perrin
Ultracold atoms and molecules continue to provide new opportunities for basic quantum science, for precision measurement, and for the study of paradigmatic Hamiltonians. I will illustrate two novel systems: Using ultracold NaLi atoms in the triplet ground state, we were able to control chemistry via magnetic fields and quantum interference. Using a new optical superresolution technique, we...
We have recently demonstrated microwave shielding and evaporative cooling for bosonic NaCs ground state molecules [1,2]. Dressing the molecules with a circularly polarized microwave field, we observe a suppression of inelastic loss by a factor of 200 and reach lifetimes of 1 second in dense molecular ensembles. We have demonstrated evaporative cooling for bosonic molecules and reached a...
