Double Microwave Shielding

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Autori principali: Karman, Tijs, Bigagli, Niccolò, Yuan, Weijun, Zhang, Siwei, Stevenson, Ian, Will, Sebastian
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Karman, Tijs
Bigagli, Niccolò
Yuan, Weijun
Zhang, Siwei
Stevenson, Ian
Will, Sebastian
author_facet Karman, Tijs
Bigagli, Niccolò
Yuan, Weijun
Zhang, Siwei
Stevenson, Ian
Will, Sebastian
contents We develop double microwave shielding, which has recently enabled evaporative cooling to the first Bose-Einstein condensate of polar molecules [Bigagli et al., Nature 631, 289 (2024)]. Two microwave fields of different frequency and polarization are employed to effectively shield polar molecules from inelastic collisions and three-body recombination. Here, we describe in detail the theory of double microwave shielding. We demonstrate that double microwave shielding effectively suppresses two- and three-body losses. Simultaneously, dipolar interactions and the scattering length can be flexibly tuned, enabling comprehensive control over interactions in ultracold gases of polar molecules. We show that this approach works universally for a wide range of molecules. This opens the door to studying many-body physics with strongly interacting dipolar quantum matter.
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Karman, Tijs
Bigagli, Niccolò
Yuan, Weijun
Zhang, Siwei
Stevenson, Ian
Will, Sebastian
Quantum Gases
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
We develop double microwave shielding, which has recently enabled evaporative cooling to the first Bose-Einstein condensate of polar molecules [Bigagli et al., Nature 631, 289 (2024)]. Two microwave fields of different frequency and polarization are employed to effectively shield polar molecules from inelastic collisions and three-body recombination. Here, we describe in detail the theory of double microwave shielding. We demonstrate that double microwave shielding effectively suppresses two- and three-body losses. Simultaneously, dipolar interactions and the scattering length can be flexibly tuned, enabling comprehensive control over interactions in ultracold gases of polar molecules. We show that this approach works universally for a wide range of molecules. This opens the door to studying many-body physics with strongly interacting dipolar quantum matter.
title Double Microwave Shielding
topic Quantum Gases
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08095