ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Molecular Bose Einstein Condensate
Generating a Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) or Fermi gas of molecules is a long-standing goal of modern molecular science. Molecular BEC is a macroscopic millimeter-size quantum object with a large number of molecules occupying the lowest center-of-mass quantum state. In stark contrast to atoms, molecules possess internal degrees of freedom and stronger interactions that lead to the emergence of new phenomena. Strong dipole-dipole interactions give rise to new ordered states of matter, quantum crystals. Many-body effects start dominating collision dynamics where even molecular rotational excitations are dissipated as angular-momenta-carrying quasiparticles within the condensate. Despite…
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