In a groundbreaking study, Princeton researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in the field of quantum physics by measuring quantum correlations between molecules for the first time. This research has profound implications for fundamental physics research, such as the study of many-body physics, and might accelerate the development of large-scale quantum computer systems.
Cooling Molecules and Observing Quantum Behavior
The Princeton team, led by Waseem Bakr, associate professor of physics, was able to cool molecules down to ultracold temperatures, load them into an artificial crystal of light known as an optical lattice, and study their collective quantum behavior with high spatial resolution such that each individual molecule could be observed.