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SYEM: Symposium Extreme Matter: From Cold Atoms to the Quark Gluon Plasma

SYEM 1: Symposium Extreme Matter I

SYEM 1.3: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 12:00–12:30, C/gHS

Towards ultracold RbSr ground-state molecules — •Florian Schreck — Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

RbSr ground-state molecules possess a strong electric dipole moment and an unpaired electron, providing a magnetic moment. Interactions between the molecules can be tuned by electric and magnetic fields, enabling the creation and exploration of a wide range of many-body quantum systems. An exciting possibility is to induce repulsive van der Waals interactions between the molecules, which might enable evaporative cooling to a quantum gas of ground-state molecules. Another prospect is to exploit the long-range electric dipole interaction to engineer lattice-spin models. I will present our progress towards the creation of ultracold RbSr ground-state molecules and give an overview of the opportunities opened by them.