Detecting and engineering non-classical quantum many-body states of polar molecules (A03)

• Subject Area: Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 274200144

Polar molecules in optical lattices offer exciting possibilities for quantum simulation and quantum metrology. Within the upcoming funding period, we will combine our already available quantum gases of bosonic NaK molecules with high resolution in-situ imaging in the lattices to simulate spin models with anisotropic long-range dipole-dipole interactions. We will be interested together with A04 in the intriguing transport and many-body localization properties of rotational excitations resulting from the interplay between dipolar interactions and disorder. This project directly contributes to the DQ-mat core goal of exploring many-body physics.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1227: Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat) - generation, manipulation, and detection for metrological applications and tests of fundamental physics
• Applicant Institution: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Silke Ospelkaus; Dr. Alessandro Zenesini, Ph.D., until 6/2020