Affiliation:
1. JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Abstract
Filling a molecular lattice of light
Cold atoms in optical lattices normally interact only when two of them occupy the same lattice site. More-complex interactions would expand the potential of the system for quantum simulation. A promising approach is to use polar molecules instead of atoms, which interact at much longer length scales. However, “packing” the lattice with molecules is tricky. Moses
et al.
introduced bosonic
87
Rb atoms and fermionic
40
K atoms into an optical lattice, combined them into molecules, and brought the molecules into their ground state, achieving a considerable lattice filling of 25%.
Science
, this issue p.
659
Funder
NSF
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Defense Science and Engineering
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
Army Research Office MURI
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
161 articles.
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