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Laser cooling, optical trapping and Zeeman-Sisyphus deceleration of heavy polyatomic molecules for probing physics beyond the Standard Model
Ultracold polyatomic molecules containing heavy nuclei, such as SrOH and YbOH, are sensitive to T- symmetry violating and P-symmetry …
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Laser Cooling, Optical Trapping, and Quantum Control of Polyatomic Molecules
Polyatomic molecules contain diverse structures – including rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom, nuclear and electronic …
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Motional Control of Polyatomic Molecules for Precision Measurement
Extending AMO techniques of motional control to heavy polyatomic molecules opens new possibilities for precision measurements of …
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Ultracold molecules in an optical tweezer array: From dipolar interaction to ground state cooling
Ultracold molecules are attractive candidates for various applications including ultracold chemistry, quantum information processing, …
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Engineered Collisions, Molecular Qubits, and Laser Cooling of Asymmetric Top Molecules
In this dissertation, I present studies of molecules for uses in quantum science ranging from quantum computing and ultracold …
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A Fast and Dense Magneto-Optical Trap of Potassium Atoms Loaded From a Cold Buffer-Gas Beam
Maryam Hirafdar
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Methods for Direct Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules
Molecules controlled at the single-quantum-state level offer wide-ranging applications spanning many of the frontiers of modern …
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Laser cooling and 1D magneto-optical trapping of calcium monohydroxide
The rich internal structure of polyatomic molecules has inspired a number of theoretical proposals exploring a myriad of unique …
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Ultracold molecules in optical arrays: from laser cooling to molecular collisions
Potential wide-ranging scientific applications, spanning fundamental physics to quantum engineering, has led to significant efforts in …
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Order of magnitude improved limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron
The Standard Model of particle physics accurately describes with amazing precision all particle physics measurements made in the …
Cris Panda
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