Coherence and entanglement are key features of quantum mechanics, although they are susceptible to environmental perturbations. A conventional strategy to entangle qubits with high fidelity is to leverage precisely controlled interactions while keeping qubits from decohering. By leveraging electric dipolar interactions, I will report entangling individual trapped NaCs molecules in optical...
Ultracold mixtures involving highly magnetic atoms such as Er+Li, Dy+K, Cr+Li, and Er+Yb have already been realized for studying exotic quantum many-body phases. Such mixtures also open the way for the formation of ultracold diatomic molecules having both significant magnetic and electric dipole moments. Molecules involving atoms with large orbital angular momenta, such as Dy and Er, have a...
The most precise measurements of the electron’s electric dipole moment (eEDM) all use molecules [1,2]. The molecules are spin polarized, and the eEDM determined by measuring the spin precession frequency in an applied electric field. The precession is due to the interaction of the eEDM with an effective electric field which can be exceptionally large for heavy polar molecules. To reach high...
