Past research highlights
Signatures of Bose-Einstein statistics and perfect icosahedral symmetry manifested in disappearance of low-J rotational states of C60 [1].
Rotation as a tuning parameter for the physical properties of C60 [2]
Vibrational and rotational collision quenching cross sections measured in a highly symmetric molecule [3].
Translational cooling and adiabatic transport of single atoms in space [4].
Assembling molecules from individual atoms using optical tweezers [5].
References
Ya-Chu Chan, Lee R Liu, Andrew Scheck, David J Nesbitt, Jun Ye, Dina Rosenberg
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13907 (2024)
2. Ergodicity breaking in rapidly rotating C60 fullerenes
Lee R Liu, Dina Rosenberg, P Bryan Changala, Philip JD Crowley, David J Nesbitt, Norman Y Yao, Timur V Tscherbul, Jun Ye
Science 381 (6659), 778-783 (2023)
3. Collision-Induced Rovibrational Relaxation Probed by State-Resolved Nonlinear Spectroscopy
Lee R Liu, P Bryan Changala, Marissa L Weichman, Qizhong Liang, Jutta Toscano, Jacek Kłos, Svetlana Kotochigova, David J Nesbitt, Jun Ye
PRX Quantum 3 (3), 030332 (2022)
4. Molecular assembly of ground-state cooled single atoms
Lee R Liu, Jonathan D Hood, Yichao Yu, Jessie T Zhang, Kenneth Wang, Yen-Wei Lin, Till Rosenband, Kang-Kuen Ni
Physical Review X 9 (2), 021039 (2019)
5. Building one molecule from a reservoir of two atoms
Lee R Liu, Jonathan D Hood, Yichao Yu, Jessie T Zhang, Nicholas R Hutzler, Till Rosenband, Kang-Kuen Ni
Science 360 (6391), 900-903 (2018)