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The
research of ultracold atom produced by laser cooling has been
a great success in the past decade. Beyond atomic physics, it
has also drawn strong impacts to many other fields, such as
condensed-matter physics, plasma physics, quantum information
science, and chemistry. The development of a general cooling
method to produce ultracold molecule will enrich the ultracold
world. Our research interest is the studies of ultracold
molecule. We plan to produce cold molecules by molecular beam
collisions. And then transfer the cold molecules to a trap and
explore a way to reach the ultracold regime (sub-mK).
Possible schemes include cavity laser Doppler cooling,
sympathetic cooling with laser-cooled atoms, and evaporative
cooling. With the ultrcold molecules, we plan to study the
ultracold collisions and reactions. For dipolar molecule, the
dipole-dipole interaction will provides rich quantum
phenomenon in ultracold regime. The interaction can also be
tuned by static electric or magnetic field. This will greatly
expand the broader of condensed-matter physics studies using
ultracold atomic gases. In the future, we also plan to explore
the possibility to realize quantum computation by ultracold,
dipolar molecule.
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