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physics.atom-ph2026

Near-deterministic loading of optical tweezer arrays via repulsive barricade potentials

Archie C. Baldock, Alex J. Matthies, Luke Caldwell +1

Optical tweezers are a powerful tool for creating defect-free arrays of atoms and molecules, enabling advances in quantum simulation, computation, and precision metrology. However,…

nucl-ex2023★ 77 cited

Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules

Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Mia Au +59

Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics,…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 327 cited

A new bound on the electron's electric dipole moment

Tanya S. Roussy, Luke Caldwell, Trevor Wright +8

The Standard Model cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our universe. This imbalance indicates undiscovered physics that violates combined CP symmetry. Many e…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 19 cited

Systematic and statistical uncertainty evaluation of the HfF electron electric dipole moment experiment

Luke Caldwell, Tanya S. Roussy, Trevor Wright +8

We have completed a new precision measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment using trapped HfF in rotating bias fields. We report on the accuracy evaluation of this m…

physics.atom-ph2022

Evidence of Two-Source King Plot Nonlinearity in Spectroscopic Search for New Boson

Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Ian Counts +12

Optical precision spectroscopy of isotope shifts can be used to test for new forces beyond the Standard Model, and to determine basic properties of atomic nuclei. We measure isotop…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 26 cited

Spectroscopy on the eEDM-sensitive states of ThF

Kia Boon Ng, Yan Zhou, Lan Cheng +8

An excellent candidate molecule for the measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment (eEDM) is thorium monofluoride (ThF) because the eEDM-sensitive state, , is…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 59 cited

Collisions Between Ultracold Molecules and Atoms in a Magnetic Trap

S. Jurgilas, A. Chakraborty, C. J. H. Rich +7

We prepare mixtures of ultracold CaF molecules and Rb atoms in a magnetic trap and study their inelastic collisions. When the atoms are prepared in the spin-stretched state and the…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 10 cited

A general approach to state-dependent optical tweezer traps for polar molecules

L. Caldwell, M. R. Tarbutt

State-dependent optical tweezers can be used to trap a pair of molecules with a separation much smaller than the wavelength of the trapping light, greatly enhancing the dipole-dipo…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 20 cited

Enhancing dipolar interactions between molecules using state-dependent optical tweezer traps

L. Caldwell, M. R. Tarbutt

We show how state-dependent optical potentials can be used to trap a pair of molecules in different internal states at a separation much smaller than the wavelength of the trapping…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 41 cited

Sideband cooling of molecules in optical traps

L. Caldwell, M. R. Tarbutt

Sideband cooling is a popular method for cooling atoms to the ground state of an optical trap. Applying the same method to molecules requires a number of challenges to be overcome.…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 38 cited

Long rotational coherence times of molecules in a magnetic trap

L. Caldwell, H. J. Williams, N. J. Fitch +4

Polar molecules in superpositions of rotational states exhibit long-range dipolar interactions, but maintaining their coherence in a trapped sample is a challenge. We present calcu…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 86 cited

Deep laser cooling and efficient magnetic compression of molecules

L. Caldwell, J. A. Devlin, H. J. Williams +4

We introduce a scheme for deep laser cooling of molecules based on robust dark states at zero velocity. By simulating this scheme, we show it to be a widely applicable method that…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 146 cited

Ultracold molecules for quantum simulation: rotational coherences in CaF and RbCs

Jacob A Blackmore, Luke Caldwell, Philip D Gregory +9

We explore the uses of ultracold molecules as a platform for future experiments in the field of quantum simulation, focusing on two molecular species, CaF and …

physics.atom-ph2017★ 116 cited

Magnetic trapping and coherent control of laser-cooled molecules

H. J. Williams, L. Caldwell, N. J. Fitch +5

We demonstrate coherent microwave control of the rotational, hyperfine and Zeeman states of ultracold CaF molecules, and the magnetic trapping of these molecules in a single, selec…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 381 cited

Molecules cooled below the Doppler limit

S. Truppe, H. J. Williams, M. Hambach +5

The ability to cool atoms below the Doppler limit -- the minimum temperature reachable by Doppler cooling -- has been essential to most experiments with quantum degenerate gases, o…