Abstract

Samples of ultracold, polar molecules (UPMs) can provide access to new regimes in many phenomena [1]. Ultracold temperatures allow trapping, and polarity can be used to engineer large, anisotropic, and tunable interactions between molecules. These features make UPMs attractive as qubits for quantum computation, as building blocks for novel many-body systems, and for the study of chemistry in the ultracold regime. UPMs also could be used as uniquely sensitive probes of phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

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