Quantum gases of ultracold polar molecules

Project Information

QUPOL

Grant agreement ID: 203479

Project closed

Start date 1 August 2008

End date 31 July 2013

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 1 230 000,00

EU contribution € 1 230 000,00

Coordinated by

LABORATORIO EUROPEO DI SPETTROSCOPIE NON LINEARI
Italy

Objective

I propose to realize quantum gases of ultracold molecules with a permanent electric dipole moment. This project aims at a significant extension of the field of ultracold quantum gases towards more complex particles interacting via long-range, anisotropic interactions. Quantum gases of polar molecules would allow to study novel kinds of matter waves, to solve open questions in modern condensed matter physics, to explore novel quantum phases and to implement novel quantum computing schemes. Weakly bound heteronuclear dimers formed in ultracold atomic quantum mixtures via magnetic Feshbach resonances will be coherently transferred to deeply-bound ro-vibrational states using laser fields. The formation of both bosonic and fermionic molecules will be explored in different alkali mixtures. The high degree of coherence of the molecular quantum gases will allow to prepare them in selected rotational states of the absolute ground electronic and vibrational state. The molecular electric dipoles will be manipulated via electric and microwave fields. The precise dynamical control of the shape and strength of the dipole-dipole potential will allow to engineer a variety of quantum states and to study many interdisciplinary phenomena. The following themes will be explored: phenomenology of dipolar quantum gases, lattice spin models, polar molecules as qubits.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › computer hardware › quantum computers
• natural sciences › physical sciences › condensed matter physics › quantum gases
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › laser physics

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Keywords

• Quantum computing
• Quantum gases

Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-SG-PE2 - ERC Starting Grant - Fundamental constituents of matter

Call for proposal

ERC-2007-StG
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Funding Scheme

ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant

Host institution

LABORATORIO EUROPEO DI SPETTROSCOPIE NON LINEARI

• EU contribution: € 1 230 000,00
• Address: Via Nello Carrara 1 ; 50019 Sesto-Fiorentino (Fi) ; Italy
• Region: Centro (IT) › Toscana › Firenze
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Principal investigator: Giovanni Modugno (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

LABORATORIO EUROPEO DI SPETTROSCOPIE NON LINEARI

Italy

• EU contribution: € 1 230 000,00
• Address: Via Nello Carrara 1 ; 50019 Sesto-Fiorentino (Fi)
• Region: Centro (IT) › Toscana › Firenze
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Principal investigator: Giovanni Modugno (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data