Ultracold Molecules

We produce ultracold molecules by direct laser cooling. We are using these to:

• Study collisions between ultracold atoms and molecules and cool molecules to quantum degeneracy
• Explore many-body quantum physics using ordered arrays of interacting molecules
• Develop a molecule chip where trapped molecules can interact strongly with microwave photons
• Develop a clock based on the fundamental vibrational transition of a molecule and use it to test the stability of fundamental constants
• Measure the electron's electric dipole moment.