People: Loic Anderegg

Postdoc
Publications
  1. N. Vilas, C. Hallas, L. Anderegg, P. Robichaud, J. Doyle, C. Zhang, S. Dawley, and L. Cheng. Blackbody thermalization and vibrational lifetimes of trapped polyatomic molecules. ArXiv 2023.
  2. B.L. Augenbraun, L. Anderegg, C. Hallas, Z. Lasner, N. Vilas, J. Doyle, Direct Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules. ArXiv 2023.
  3. C. Hallas, N. Vilas, L. Anderegg, P. Robichaud, A. Winnicki, C. Zheng, J. Doyle, and L. Chang. Optical Trapping of a Polyatomic Molecule in an l-Type Parity Doublet State. Phys Rev Lett, 130(153202), April 2023.
  4. L. Anderegg, N. Vilas, C. Hallas, P. Robichaud, J. Doyle, N. Hutzler, and A. Jadbabaie. Quantum Control of Trapped Polyatomic Molecules for eEDM Searches. ArXiv 2023.
  5. Y. Bao, S. Yu, L. Anderegg, E. Chae, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, Dipolar spin-exchange and entanglement between molecules in an optical tweezer array. ArXiv 2022.
  6. Y. Bao, S. Yu, L. Anderegg, S. Burchesky, D. Gonzalez-Acevedo, E. Chae, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, Fast optical transport of ultracold molecules over long distances. ArXiv 2022.
  7. Y. Bao, L. Anderegg, S. Burchesky, J. Doyle, Device for suppression of aerosol transfer in close proximity settings. COVID, 394-402, 2021.
  8. L. Anderegg, J. Doyle, C. Hallas, Y. Lenskiy, N. Vilas, M. L. Gardel, A. Gupta, N. G. Love, B. A. Lucas, E. Mazenc, C. Meisenhelder, A. Pillarisetti, D. Ranard, A. H. Squires, J. Vechakul, S. Williams, D. Wilson, T. Chen, and N95DECON Consortium. Heat and Humidity for Bioburden Reduction of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators. Applied Biosafety, 26(2), 2021.
  9. N. Vilas, C. Hallas, L. Anderegg, P. Robichaud, A. Winnicki, D. Mitra, J. Doyle, and . Magneto-Optical Trapping and Sub-Doppler Cooling of a Polyatomic Molecule. ArXiv 2021.
  10. L. Anderegg, S. Burchesky, Y. Bao, S. Yu, J. Doyle, Observation of Microwave Shielding of Ultracold Molecules. Science, 373(6556):779-782, August 2021.
  11. S. Burchesky, L. Anderegg, Y. Bao, S. Yu, E. Chae, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, Rotational Coherence Times of Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers. Phys. Rev. Lett., 127(123202), September 2021.
  12. L. Anderegg, C. Meisenhelder, C. O. Ngooi, L. Liao, W. Xiao, S. Chu, and Y. Cui. A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators During the COVID-19 Crisis. Plus One July 2020.
  13. D. Mitra, N. Vilas, C. Hallas, L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, L. Baum, S. Raval, J. Doyle, and C. Miller. Direct Laser Cooling of a Symmetric Top Molecule. Science, 369(6509):1366-1369, September 2020.
  14. L. Anderegg, J. Doyle, C. Meisenhelder, A. Preecha, C. O. Ngooi, L. Liao, W. Xiao, S. Chu, and Y. Cui. Effect of Dry Heat and Autoclave Decontamination Cycles on N95 FFRs. MedRxiv 2020.
  15. L. Cheuk, L. Anderegg, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, and Scarlett Yu. Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules. ArXiv January 2020.
  16. L. Cheuk, L. Anderegg, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, S. Yu, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules. Physical Review Letters, 125(043401), July 2020.
  17. L. Anderegg, L. Cheuk, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, An Optical Tweezer Array of Ultracold Molecules. ArXiv 2019.
  18. L. Anderegg, L. Cheuk, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle, An optical tweezer array of ultracold molecules. Science, 365(6458):1156-1158, September 2019.
  19. L. Anderegg Ultracold molecules in optical arrays: from laser cooling to molecular collisions. Harvard University, 2019.
  20. L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, L. Cheuk, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, Laser Cooling of Optically Trapped Molecules. Nature, 14:890–893, 2018.
  21. L. Cheuk, L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, Λ-Enhanced Imaging of Molecules in an Optical Trap. Phys. Rev. Lett, 121(083201), August 2018.
  22. E. Chae, L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, A. Ravi, B. Hemmerling, N. Hutzler, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A. Collopy, and J. Ye. One dimensional magneto-optical compression of a cold CaF molecular beam. New Journal of Physics, 19(033035), March 2017.
  23. L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, E. Chae, B. Hemmerling, N. Hutzler, A. Ravi, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A. Collopy, and J. Ye. Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 119(103201), September 2017.
  24. B. Hemmerling, E. Chae, A. Ravi, L. Anderegg, G. Drayna, N. Hutzler, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A.L. Collopy, and J. Ye. Laser slowing of CaF molecules to near the capture velocity of a molecular MOT. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2016.
News
Mon December 11, 2023

Quantum-computing approach uses single molecules as qubits for first time

Platforms based on molecules manipulated using ‘optical tweezers’ might be able to perform complex physics calculations. Physicists have taken the first step towards building quantum computers out of individual molecules trapped with laser devices called optical tweezers. Two teams report their results in Science on 7 December in both cases making pairs of calcium monofluoride...
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Mon July 20, 2020

Controlled Collisions of Exactly two Ultracold Molecules

One of the fundamental questions in the study of ultracold polar molecules is “what happens when two molecules collide at ultracold temperatures?” Knowing whether the molecules undergo chemical reactions, form long lived complexes, change internal state, or bounce off each other carries important implications which will guide future research directions. Our recent experiment explores this...
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Thu February 27, 2020

Laser-cooling and Optical Trapping of Diatomic Molecules

Ultracold molecules have been proposed as a rich resource for many applications ranging from precision measurements and quantum metrology to quantum simulation and quantum information processing. The benefits of molecules in all these applications arise from the many internal degrees of freedom in a molecule. For example, even with the simplest diatomic molecules, one has...
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Sat September 1, 2018

Laser-cooling and Optical Trapping of Diatomic Molecules

Ultracold molecules have been proposed as a rich resource for many applications ranging from precision measurements and quantum metrology to quantum simulation and quantum information processing. The benefits of molecules in all these applications arise from the many internal degrees of freedom in a molecule. For example, even with the simplest two-atom diatomic molecules, one...
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