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Published on: March 30, 2017
Magnetically Tunable Electric Dipolar Interactions of Ultracold Polar Molecules in the Quantum Ergodic Regime
Rebekah Hermsmeier1, Ana Maria Rey2, Timur V Tscherbul1
1Department of Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/01keh0577">University of Nevada</a>, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA.
Abstract:
By leveraging the hyperfine interaction between the rotational and nuclear spin degrees of freedom, we demonstrate extensive magnetic control over the electric dipole moments, electric dipolar interactions, and ac Stark shifts of ground-state alkali-dimer molecules such as KRb(X^{1}Σ^{+}). The control is enabled by narrow avoided crossings and the highly ergodic character of molecular eigenstates at low magnetic fields, offering a general and robust way of continuously tuning the intermolecular electric dipolar interaction for applications in quantum simulation, quantum sensing, and dipolar spinor physics.
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