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20192024
most citedAssembly of a rovibrational ground state molecule in an optical tweezer

125 citations · 328 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.atom-ph2024★ 43 cited

Sub-millisecond Entanglement and iSWAP Gate between Molecular Qubits

Lewis R. B. Picard, Annie J. Park, Gabriel E. Patenotte +4

Quantum computation (QC) and simulation rely on long-lived qubits with controllable interactions. Early work in quantum computing made use of molecules because of their readily ava…

physics.atom-ph2024

Site-selective preparation and multi-state readout of molecules in optical tweezers

Lewis R. B. Picard, Gabriel E. Patenotte, Annie J. Park +2

Polar molecules are a quantum resource with rich internal structure that can be coherently controlled. The structure, however, also makes the state preparation and measurement (SPA…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 3 cited

Extended rotational coherence of polar molecules in an elliptically polarized trap

Annie J. Park, Lewis R. B. Picard, Gabriel E. Patenotte +3

We demonstrate long rotational coherence of individual polar molecules in the motional ground state of an optical trap. In the present, previously unexplored regime, the rotational…

physics.atom-ph2023

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…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 39 cited

Enriching the quantum toolbox of ultracold molecules with Rydberg atoms

Kenneth Wang, Conner P. Williams, Lewis R. B. Picard +2

We describe a quantum information architecture consisting of a hybrid array of optically-trapped molecules and atoms. This design leverages the large transition dipole moments of R…

physics.atom-ph2021

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…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 125 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 22 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 76 cited

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…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 20 cited

Deep Learning-Assisted Classification of Site-Resolved Quantum Gas Microscope Images

Lewis R. B. Picard, Manfred J. Mark, Francesca Ferlaino +1

We present a novel method for the analysis of quantum gas microscope images, which uses deep learning to improve the fidelity with which lattice sites can be classified as occupied…