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Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold sodium-rubidium molecules with tunable dipolar interactions

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Realizing Bose-Einstein condensation of polar molecules is a long-standing challenge in ultracold physics and quantum science due to near-universal two-body collisional losses. Here, we report the production of a Bose-Einstein condensate of ground-state sodium-rubidium molecules via high efficiency evaporative cooling, with losses suppressed using the dual microwave shielding technique. The ability to tune the dipolar interaction between these ultracold polar molecules is crucial for producing the condensate and enables exciting prospects for future applications. We explore different regimes of dipolar interactions, realizing both the gas phase and the quantum droplet phase of the molecular condensate. This work opens new avenues for investigating quantum matter with strong dipolar interactions and for quantum simulation of long-range many-body systems.

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2026 8 2025 1

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Formation and dynamics of self-bound droplets in dipolar molecular condensate

cond-mat.quant-gas · 2026-06-21 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Self-bound quantum droplets exhibit nonmonotonous dependence on non-axisymmetric DDI strength, tighter binding with more particles, collapse at low s-wave scattering length, and direction-dependent collision outcomes ranging from rebound to fragmentation.

Bilayer crystals in a polar-molecules system

cond-mat.quant-gas · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Simulations of confined polar molecules reveal a bilayer crystal phase stabilized by increasing confinement and evidence of layered superfluid states with inter-layer coherence.

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