Ultra-cold Molecular Ions

We are developing and implementing methods for trapping ultra-cold polar molecular ions. These trapped molecular ions, whose quantum states can be precisely engineered, will provide a “clean” experimental system for the study of cold ion chemistry, which not only has important implications for understanding the formation of interstellar clouds, but will allow for investigation, and possible control, of reactive collisions in the truly quantum regime; precision measurement of molecular transitions, which can be used to very sensitively measure parity violating effects, as well as constrain the possible variation of the fundamental constants; and the implementation of a scalable, quantum computation architecture.

 

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Had I known we were not going to get rid of this damned quantum jumping,

I never would have involved myself in this business!

                 - Erwin Schrödinger

         AMO Physics: quantum interactions and fundamental physics tests

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