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Nanomanipulation of Single RNA Molecules by Optical Tweezers
Published on: August 20, 2014
An optical tweezer array of ultracold molecules
Loïc Anderegg1,2, Lawrence W Cheuk3,2, Yicheng Bao3,2
1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. anderegg@g.harvard.edu.
Abstract:
Ultracold molecules have important applications that range from quantum simulation and computation to precision measurements probing physics beyond the Standard Model. Optical tweezer arrays of laser-cooled molecules, which allow control of individual particles, offer a platform for realizing this full potential. In this work, we report on creating an optical tweezer array of laser-cooled calcium monofluoride molecules. This platform has also allowed us to observe ground-state collisions of laser-cooled molecules both in the presence and absence of near-resonant light.
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