Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules

<jats:title>Shielding ultracold molecules</jats:title> <jats:p> Ultracold molecules hold promise for a wide range of exciting applications. However, such applications are currently hampered by the limited number of ultracold molecular ensembles that can be c...

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Main Authors: Anderegg, Loïc, Burchesky, Sean, Bao, Yicheng, Yu, Scarlett S, Karman, Tijs, Chae, Eunmi, Ni, Kang-Kuen, Ketterle, Wolfgang, Doyle, John M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141994
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Summary:<jats:title>Shielding ultracold molecules</jats:title> <jats:p> Ultracold molecules hold promise for a wide range of exciting applications. However, such applications are currently hampered by the limited number of ultracold molecular ensembles that can be created and by their short lifetimes. Anderegg <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . used a microwave dressing field to tune the collisional properties of calcium monofluoride molecules trapped in optical tweezers. This approach allowed a sixfold suppression of inelastic trap-loss collisions. This scheme paves the way for the creation of a variety of long-lived ultracold molecular ensembles. —YS </jats:p>