Jul 17 – 22, 2022
Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
America/Toronto timezone

Site-resolved rotational state control of an optical tweezer array of ultracold dipolar molecules

Jul 19, 2022, 5:00 PM
1h 30m
Hart House (Hart House)

Hart House

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Poster presentation Degenerate gases, many-body physics, and quantum simulation Poster session

Description

Ultracold polar molecules are able to interact at long-range via electric dipole-dipole interactions, which can be used to generate entanglement between distant molecules by coherently coupling their rotational quantum states. This capability makes such molecules an attractive platform for simulation of quantum matter and for quantum computing. We present our recent work on coherent control of the rotational and hyperfine degrees of freedom of a 1D array of ultracold NaCs molecules in optical tweezers. We perform coherent microwave spectroscopy of the molecules in the rotational ground and first excited state manifold. We further demonstrate site-selective excitation of individual molecules using a global microwave pulse by varying the light-shift induced by the tweezer beams at different sites, which allows us to arbitrarily position rotational excitations in our molecule array. Finally, we present our progress towards engineering coherent transfer of rotational excitations between sites via dipole-dipole coupling.

Presenter name Lewis Picard
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Primary authors

Lewis Picard (Harvard University) Annie Park (Harvard University) Gabriel Patenotte Jessie Zhang (Harvard University) Kang-Kuen Ni (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA)

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