⚛️QSUM ⚛️

Quantum Science with Ultracold Molecules. We are a collaboration between Durham University, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford.

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Looking for an exciting PhD project or postdoc position? Why not join our team building a quantum gas microscope for ultracold molecules? Watch https://t.co/y90TZHYkkZ for further details. @QSUMproject @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Update from the @QSUMproject optical tweezers experiment. Our atom number is growing! For the uninitiated, the fuzzy blobs below are images of individual Cs atoms. How cool is that!? Well, the atoms are at about 14 micro-Kelvin! @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Alex Clark @DrAlexClark]

I'm speaking at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Digital Forum next week! Free to register here https://t.co/bisJAVbeh0 and listen to all the great talks. Hopefully next time I actually get to go to San Diego! #quantum #photonics @QSUMproject @SPIEevents @ImperialPhysics @qqq_iop

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Update from the @QSUMproject CsYb experiment. We've added a bichromatic optical trap and can now produce dual-species BECs of Yb and Cs. This opens up the study of quantum droplets with @jqcDurNew and @DurhamQlm theory colleagues. @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Update from the @QSUMproject microscope project. We've been testing our high NA objective lens by imaging gold nano-particles to extract the PSF (a)-(c). The image in (d) is a simulation of a Rb Mott insulator state. @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Update from the @QSUMproject RbCs lab. We aspire to great heights on this project and so we've been climbing the rotational ladder. Here are Rabi oscillations on N=0 to N=1. Follow the thread to climb higher! @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher on our Cs-Yb experiment to study beyond mean-field quantum droplets. Closing date for applications is 20 August 2020. https://t.co/yXRoGVAD9j

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

Recent progress from the optical tweezers experiment at Durham.

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Update from the @QSUMproject optical tweezers experiment - species selective loading of single Rb and Cs atoms into separate optical tweezers. Our first step towards making a single ultracold RbCs molecule. @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Beautiful work from the Ni group! You can read about our closely related measurements using RbCs molecules in Physical Review Letters at https://t.co/N34YGFeDWk

[Alex Clark @DrAlexClark]

New paper up on the #arXiv today on pump-probe spectroscopy of rubidium at the single-photon level. Check it out! https://t.co/PrLOd92kU4 @QSUMproject @ImperialPhysics @ICFOnians

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

Our paper on dipolar interactions between molecules in tweezer traps is available at: https://t.co/MoxrSargg1

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

Our results and discussion of controlling the ac Stark effect in RbCs molecules are now up on https://t.co/FBjQvPY2FY

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Congratulations @jakey820 for submitting your thesis! I can testify that it's a good read - let's hope the examiners enjoy it! @DurhamQlm @QSUMproject

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

You can now watch Vincent's presentation on "Quantum LEGO" for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at https://t.co/Er73sS6n4z @QSUMproject @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Not just ‘participating’ - Vincent was runner-up in the Durham competition and is now through to the NE regional final! Very well done! @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

Congratulations to QSUM PhD student Vincent Brooks from Durham for participating in the 3 Minute Thesis Challenge, describing his work towards assembling ultracold RbCs molecules in optical tweezers.

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

This research explores the use of organic molecules embedded in a polymer shell for #QuantumPhysics using single photon emitters

[Alex Clark @DrAlexClark]

New paper out today in Optical Materials Express about protective encapsulation of nanocrystals containing single-photon emitting molecules! Enjoy! https://t.co/KNUDgqb60z @QSUMproject @qsehub @ImperialPhysics @qqq_iop @CQDCDT @OSAPublishing

[⚛️QSUM ⚛️ @QSUMproject]

An exciting proposal using ultracold polar molecules for #QuantumComputing

[jordimp @quantum_engr]

🎉Another @PhysRevA out - led by DPhil student Michael @OxfordPhysics w/ @QSUMproject mates at @DurhamQlm @DurhamChemistry & @ImperialPhysics
We propose a robust high-fidelity entangling gate btw polar #molecules with MWs #qtech

https://t.co/habjmgsKF2
arXiv:1912.09419

[jordimp @quantum_engr]

🎉Paper out @PhysRevA led by @GaoHongmin
We show how shaking strongly-correlated fermions in a lattice allows to control the dynamics of spin singlets.

It's a collaboration btw @ERC_Research project Q-MAC & @EPSRC @QSUMproject

https://t.co/Ca7XWsjsS3
https://t.co/fgEsxSdGFv

[Simon Cornish @SimonLCornish]

Our paper studying molecular collision complexes has been published in @APSphysics @PhysRevLett Congratulations @GrumpyPostgrad @jakey820 and Sarah! @QSUMproject @DurhamQlm @DurhamPhysics