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High resolution photoassociation spectroscopy of the excited potential of NaCs
Lewis R. B. Picard, Jessie T. Zhang, William B. Cairncross +8
We report on photoassociation spectroscopy probing the potential of the bi-alkali NaCs molecule, identifying eleven vibrational lines between and of…
An optical tweezer array of ground-state polar molecules
Jessie T. Zhang, Lewis R. B. Picard, William B. Cairncross +4
Fully internal and motional state controlled and individually manipulable polar molecules are desirable for many quantum science applications leveraging the rich state space and in…
Assembly of a rovibrational ground state molecule in an optical tweezer
William B. Cairncross, Jessie T. Zhang, Lewis R. B. Picard +3
We demonstrate the coherent creation of a single NaCs molecule in its rotational, vibrational, and electronic (rovibronic) ground state in an optical tweezer. Starting with a weakl…
Coherent optical creation of a single molecule
Yichao Yu, Kenneth Wang, Jonathan D. Hood +7
We report coherent association of atoms into a single weakly bound NaCs molecule in an optical tweezer through an optical Raman transition. The Raman technique uses a deeply bound…
Forming a single molecule by magnetoassociation in an optical tweezer
Jessie T. Zhang, Yichao Yu, William B. Cairncross +6
We demonstrate the formation of a single NaCs molecule in an optical tweezer by magnetoassociation through an s-wave Feshbach resonance at 864.11(5)G. Starting from single atoms co…
Multichannel interactions of two atoms in an optical tweezer
Jonathan D. Hood, Yichao Yu, Yen-Wei Lin +5
The multichannel Na-Cs interactions are characterized by a series of measurements using two atoms in an optical tweezer, along with a multichannel quantum defect theory (MQDT). The…
Molecular assembly of ground state cooled single atoms
Lee R. Liu, Jonathan D. Hood, Yichao Yu +5
We demonstrate full quantum state control of two species of single atoms using optical tweezers and assemble the atoms into a molecule. Our demonstration includes 3D ground-state c…
Building one molecule from a reservoir of two atoms
L. R. Liu, J. D. Hood, Y. Yu +4
Chemical reactions typically proceed via stochastic encounters between reactants. Going beyond this paradigm, we combine exactly two atoms into a single, controlled reaction. The e…
Observation of two-beam collective scattering phenomena in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Ivana Dimitrova, William Lunden, Jesse Amato-Grill +7
New phenomena of collective light scattering are observed when an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate is pumped by two non-interfering beams counterpropagating along its long axis.…
Motional Ground State Cooling Outside the Lamb-Dicke Regime
Yichao Yu, Nicholas R. Hutzler, Jessie T. Zhang +4
We report Raman sideband cooling of a single sodium atom to its three-dimensional motional ground state in an optical tweezer. Despite a large Lamb-Dicke parameter, high initial te…
Ultracold Molecular Assembly
Lee R. Liu, Jessie T. Zhang, Yichao Yu +4
Chemical reactions can be surprisingly efficient at ultracold temperatures ( < 1mK) due to the wave nature of atoms and molecules. The study of reactions in the ultracold regime is…
Eliminating light shifts in single-atom optical traps
Nicholas R. Hutzler, Lee R. Liu, Yichao Yu +1
Microscopically controlled neutral atoms in optical tweezers and lattices have led to exciting advances in the study of quantum information and quantum many-body systems. The light…