Group seminar at MPQ and Zoom: Double microwave shielding and the first BEC of polar molecules

Prof. Tijs Karmann, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Group seminar at MPQ lecture hall and Zoom
Tuesday, April 9, 09:00am (MEZ)

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss double microwave shielding to suppress collisional loss of ultracold polar molecules.
Here "double" refers to the use of two microwave fields of different polarization to suppress both two-body and three-body loss.
This has recently enabled efficient evaporative cooling of bosonic NaCs to the first BEC of polar molecules. [arXiv:2312.10965]