activity
20202026
most citedOn-Demand Entanglement of Molecules in a Reconfigurable Optical Tweezer Array

138 citations · 216 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

10 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Static-Field Shielding of Bosonic Molecules: Evaporation to Degeneracy and Self-Bound Droplets

Jongheum Jung, Laura Futamura, Matteo Ciardi +5

The strong, tunable dipolar interactions of ultracold molecules make them a powerful platform for quantum many-body physics, but reaching degeneracy by evaporative cooling requires…

physics.atom-ph2026

Creating and Probing Spin-Squeezed States of Molecules

Connor M. Holland, Callum L. Welsh, Yukai Lu +4

Polar molecules are a promising platform for quantum-enhanced sensing and precision tests of fundamental physics, owing to their strong long-range dipolar interactions, broad sensi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Probing Coherent Many-Body Spin Dynamics in a Molecular Tweezer Array Quantum Simulator

Yukai Lu, Connor M. Holland, Callum L. Welsh +2

Models of interacting quantum spins are used in many areas of physics ranging from the study of magnetism and strongly correlated materials to quantum sensing. In this work, we stu…

physics.atom-ph2026★ 2 cited

Extended Rydberg Lifetimes in a Cryogenic Atom Array

Junlan Jin, Yue Shi, Youssef Aziz Alaoui +4

We report on the realization of a Cs optical tweezer array in a cryogenic blackbody radiation (BBR) environment. By enclosing the array within a 4K radiation shield, we mea…

quant-ph2024

Demonstration of Erasure Conversion in a Molecular Tweezer Array

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, Samuel J. Li +2

Programmable optical tweezer arrays of molecules are an emerging platform for quantum simulation and quantum information science. For these applications, reducing and mitigating er…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 20 cited

A Blue-Detuned Magneto-Optical Trap of CaF Molecules

Samuel J. Li, Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu +1

A key method to produce trapped and laser-cooled molecules is the magneto-optical trap (MOT), which is conventionally created using light red-detuned from an optical transition. In…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 138 cited

On-Demand Entanglement of Molecules in a Reconfigurable Optical Tweezer Array

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, Lawrence W. Cheuk

Entanglement is crucial to many quantum applications including quantum information processing, simulation of quantum many-body systems, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Molecules, bec…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 18 cited

Bichromatic Imaging of Single Molecules in an Optical Tweezer Array

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, Lawrence W. Cheuk

We report on a novel bichromatic fluorescent imaging scheme for background-free detection of single CaF molecules trapped in an optical tweezer array. By collecting fluorescence on…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 25 cited

Molecular Laser-Cooling in a Dynamically Tunable Repulsive Optical Trap

Yukai Lu, Connor M. Holland, Lawrence W. Cheuk

Recent work with laser-cooled molecules in attractive optical traps has shown that the differential AC Stark shifts arising from the trap light itself can become problematic, limit…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 13 cited

Synthesizing Optical Spectra using Computer-Generated Holography Techniques

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, Lawrence W. Cheuk

Experimental control and detection of atoms and molecules often rely on optical transitions between different electronic states. In many cases, substructure such as hyperfine or sp…