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Long rotational coherence times of molecules in a magnetic trap

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Pith's one-line read Magnetically trapped CaF molecules in a rotational superposition keep their phase for 6.4(8) ms, and the same field-insensitive transition should support coherence beyond 1 s in a smaller, colder, biased trap.

desk verdict A genuine design principle for magnetically insensitive rotational transitions in 2Sigma molecules, backed by a clean CaF measurement and an honest Monte-Carlo simulation. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.11839 v2 pith:3AKEUB2T submitted 2019-08-30 physics.atom-ph

L. Caldwell , H. J. Williams , N. J. Fitch , J. Aldegunde , Jeremy M. Hutson , B. E. Sauer , M. R. Tarbutt This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

Rotating molecules can talk to each other through long-range dipolar forces, but only if their rotational superpositions stay phase-locked while trapped. This paper establishes a way to keep that lock in a magnetic trap: it identifies rotational transitions that are almost completely insensitive to magnetic fields, verifies one in CaF with sensitivity $-4.7(2)$ Hz/G, and uses it to measure a 6.4(8) ms coherence time for trapped molecules in a superposition of the $N=1$ and $N=2$ stretched (fully spin-aligned) states. The authors decompose the observed dephasing into three mechanisms and show that all three can be suppressed, by smaller, colder clouds and by a biased trap that keeps the field direction nearly fixed. If their simulation of the suppressed mechanisms is right, rotational coherence beyond 1 s is within reach, making magnetically trapped polar molecules usable for interaction-based quantum simulation and computation.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the stretched-state transition $|N\rangle_{\mathrm{str}} \leftrightarrow |N+1\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ in a $^2\Sigma$ molecule, i.e. states in which electron spin, rotation, and nuclear spin are all maximally projected along the magnetic field. For these states the two large Zeeman contributions are independent of $N$, leaving a residual magnetic sensitivity $\Delta\mu(N) = (g_l/((2N+4)^2-1) - g_r)\mu_B$, where $g_l$ is the anisotropy of the electronic $g$ tensor and $g_r$ is the rotational $g$ factor. The scheme works when $g_l/g_r$ is close to $(2N+4)^2 - 1$; in CaF this ratio is about 36, so the two terms cancel at $N=1$ to 3.3(1) parts per million. Experimentally, the machinery is Ramsey spectroscopy with two microwave $\pi/2$ pulses, confinement in a quadrupole magnetic trap, and recapture into a magneto-optical trap for state-selective detection. A Monte-Carlo simulation of the trapped Ramsey sequence identifies the three dephasing channels and is used to project the beyond-1-s outcome for a smaller cloud in a biased trap.

What would settle it

Load a roughly 5 µK cloud of CaF into a quadrupole trap with a large bias field so that the field-direction variation across the cloud is small, run the Ramsey sequence on the $|1\rangle_{\mathrm{str}} \leftrightarrow |2\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ transition, and fit the fringe decay; if the 1/e time does not approach about 1.4 s, or if population leaks out of the stretched states, the central projection is wrong.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the stretched rotational states $|N\rangle_{\mathrm{str}} = |N, m_N=N\rangle |S, m_S=S\rangle |I, m_I=I\rangle$ of a $^2\Sigma$ molecule have Zeeman shifts that are almost independent of $N$, so the microwave transition between neighboring stretched states can have an exceptionally small residual magnetic sensitivity. In CaF, the $|1\rangle_{\mathrm{str}} \leftrightarrow |2\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ transition has measured sensitivity $-4.7(2)$ Hz/G, meaning the two states' magnetic moments agree to 3.3(1) parts per million. In a quadrupole magnetic trap, Ramsey spectroscopy on this transition gives a coherence time of 6.4(8) ms. Monte-Carlo simulation reproduces this result and attributes the dephasing to the residual field sensitivity (60 s$^{-1}$), to motion through the microwave field (50 s$^{-1}$), and to a geometric phase acquired as molecules adiabatically follow the local field direction (100 s$^{-1}$). Free-space measurements with a spin echo show no intrinsic decoherence (below 20 s$^{-1}$ at 95% confidence), and simulations indicate that shrinking the cloud and using a biased trap can push the coherence time past 1 s.

Load-bearing premise

The projection to coherence times beyond 1 s assumes that molecules in the trap adiabatically follow the local magnetic-field direction, so that the geometric phase is the only field-direction effect and a biased trap makes that effect negligible; if non-adiabatic transitions occur, or if the biased trap does not suppress field-direction variation as modeled, the projection collapses.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Rotational qubits encoded in $|1\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ and $|2\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ can stay coherent across the millisecond timescales needed for dipolar quantum gates.
  • A biased magnetic trap with a small cloud already cooled to 5 µK should reach coherence times beyond 1 s, since the projected decoherence rate from residual sensitivity is only 0.14 µK$^{-1}$ s$^{-1}$.
  • The measured $|1\rangle_{\mathrm{str}} \leftrightarrow |2\rangle_{\mathrm{str}}$ transition also acts as a magnetic-field-insensitive frequency reference, useful for precision measurements where field inhomogeneity is a systematic error.
  • Magnetic chip traps near superconducting microwave resonators become viable platforms for strong molecule-photon coupling, because the transition is essentially field-insensitive while the trap itself is magnetic.
  • Electronic-structure calculations indicate that other laser-coolable alkaline-earth fluorides and hydroxides have transitions with $|\Delta\mu/h|$ below 30 Hz/G, so the approach should transfer to other molecular species.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The authors leave implicit a sharp quantitative test: at 5 µK in a bias-field trap the only modeled dephasing that cannot be designed away is the residual-sensitivity term, so the measured Ramsey decay time directly tests their decoherence budget.
  • Because a free-space spin echo removed all observable dephasing, a trapped spin-echo sequence might extend coherence beyond 1 s even before the bias-field upgrade, at the cost of reduced contrast from imperfect $\pi$ pulses.
  • The same cancellation condition could be deliberately detuned, for example by choosing a different vibrational state or isotopologue, to create a small controlled field sensitivity where the magnetic field is wanted as a tuning knob rather than only as a noise source.
  • If non-adiabatic transitions occur in a real biased trap, they should appear as population loss from the stretched states on the longer-timescale runs; searching for that loss is a clean experimental check of the adiabatic assumption.
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Summary. The manuscript presents a combined theoretical and experimental study of magnetically insensitive rotational transitions in 2Σ molecules and their use for long rotational coherence in magnetic traps. The authors derive an expression for the residual magnetic sensitivity of transitions between stretched rotational states, calculate the relevant molecular g-factors (g_l and g_r) by DFT and Hartree-Fock for a series of laser-coolable molecules, and identify several candidate transitions with sensitivities below 10 Hz/G. For calcium monofluoride (CaF), they measure the magnetic sensitivity of the |1⟩_str ↔ |2⟩_str transition to be −4.7(2) Hz/G and demonstrate a Ramsey coherence time of 6.4(8) ms for a magnetically trapped sample. A Monte-Carlo simulation reproduces the observed decay (6.1 ms) and is used to attribute the dephasing to three mechanisms: residual magnetic spread, Doppler motion, and a geometric phase from adiabatic following of the local field direction. The simulation-based projection suggests that coherence times exceeding 1 s are feasible for small, cold clouds in a biased magnetic trap.

Significance. If the claims hold, the work establishes a practical route to long rotational coherence in magnetically trapped polar molecules, directly relevant to quantum simulation, quantum computation, and hybrid molecule–superconducting-resonator interfaces. The central measurement is direct, with quoted statistical uncertainties and a calibration of the magnetic field using a transition whose Zeeman shift is well understood. The simulation is benchmarked to the data rather than fitted to it (6.1 ms simulated versus 6.4(8) ms measured), which is a notable strength. The paper also reports open data on Zenodo and transparently discusses limitations, including the exclusion of Yb from the calculations and the fact that experimental g_r values are only available for CaF. The identification of a class of magnetically insensitive rotational transitions is a useful predictive contribution, supported by the excellent agreement between calculated and measured g-factor ratios for CaF.

major comments (2)
  1. [Decoherence characterization, paragraph following Fig. 3(a)] The three individual decoherence rates quoted (60 s⁻¹, 50 s⁻¹, and 100 s⁻¹) sum to 210 s⁻¹, whereas the full simulation gives a 1/e time of 6.1 ms, i.e., a total decay rate of about 164 s⁻¹, and the experiment gives 6.4(8) ms. If the mechanisms were independent and each produced an exponential decay, the rates should add; the observed discrepancy indicates either correlations between mechanisms or that the single-mechanism decays are not exponential over the fitted range. The authors should state explicitly how the rates are defined and why they are not additive, since this decomposition is used to rank the mechanisms and to motivate the proposed improvements (bias-field trap and smaller cloud).
  2. [Monte-Carlo simulation description (main text) and the >1 s projection] The Monte-Carlo simulation is described only verbally; no parameters (initial cloud size and temperature, trap field geometry, microwave k-vector, pulse durations, or the procedure for 'artificially removing' mechanisms) are given in the manuscript or in the included supplemental material. Because the >1 s coherence-time projection rests on this simulation, a reproducible description should be provided, at least in a supplementary file, so that the decomposition and the projection can be independently assessed.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Free-space Ramsey measurement, text near Fig. 3(b)] The stated relation 1/α = (λ/2π)√(m/2k_BT) appears to differ by a factor of 2 from the standard Doppler-dephasing expression 1/α = (λ/2π)√(2m/k_BT). The reported temperature 37(4) μK should be re-checked; as written, the same 1/α value of 11.4 ms would correspond to T ≈ 148 μK under the standard formula.
  2. [Adiabatic-following assumption, mechanism (iii)] The adiabatic-following assumption underlying mechanism (iii) is asserted without a quantitative adiabaticity estimate; the statement that the zero-field non-adiabatic region in the 45 G/cm trap is sub-micron would be more convincing with a Landau-Zener parameter or an equivalent estimate, especially because the >1 s projection relies on this assumption.
  3. [Experimental temperature consistency] The main text states that the molecules are cooled to about 50 μK, while the free-space Doppler analysis yields 37(4) μK. These values should be reconciled, particularly in light of the factor-of-2 concern above.
  4. [Table I and Fig. 1] The hydrides have much larger g_l and g_r values that dominate the vertical scale of Fig. 1; a brief note in the text clarifying that the survey targets laser-coolable molecules with small rotational g-factors would help the reader interpret the figure.

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No significant circularity: the measured 6.4(8) ms coherence time is a direct observation, and the simulation is benchmarked against it rather than fitted to it.

full rationale

Eq. (2) for the residual magnetic sensitivity is derived from the stated Zeeman Hamiltonian, with gl and gr supplied by independent electronic-structure calculations; the CaF prediction is then tested by Ramsey spectroscopy, which independently determines gl and gr. The abstract's claim that calculations show convenient insensitive transitions is therefore a genuine prediction for the other molecules and a verified prediction for CaF. The central coherence result is a measured Ramsey decay, not an output of the model; the Monte-Carlo simulation returns 6.1 ms without being fitted to the 6.4(8) ms datum, and the mechanism decomposition is additionally checked against the free-space and spin-echo measurements. The >1 s projection is explicitly presented as a simulation-based suggestion, and its adiabatic-following premise is stated as an assumption rather than smuggled in via citation. Self-citations are to the group's apparatus papers, a functional-choice rationale that is independently benchmarked against experimental gl values, and the standard geometric-phase formula; none of these carries the derivation by itself. No reduction of a prediction to its inputs by construction is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters: measured quantities (sensitivities, coherence times, temperatures, cloud widths) and known Hamiltonian terms carry the argument; the simulation uses measured inputs, not fitted constants. Five domain assumptions are listed; the most fragile are the DFT/HF accuracy for the survey molecules and the adiabatic-following model in the trap. No invented entities.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The Zeeman Hamiltonian of Eq. 1, with gS, gi, gr and gl terms, describes the magnetic interaction of 2Sigma molecules.
    Adopted from prior literature (Brown and Carrington; Bowater et al.), standard for these molecules.
  • domain assumption The stretched states |N, mN=N|S, mS=S|I, mI=I are exact eigenstates of the fine/hyperfine and Zeeman Hamiltonians.
    Asserted in the text preceding Eq. 2; this is what makes the residual sensitivity depend only on gl and gr.
  • domain assumption The residual magnetic sensitivity reduces to Eq. 2, Delta-mu(N) = (gl/((2N+4)^2-1) - gr) muB, with no other field-dependent couplings contributing.
    Derivation neglects off-diagonal couplings that could mix stretched states at trap fields; verified experimentally for CaF.
  • domain assumption B3LYP/ZORA DFT and Hartree-Fock calculations give gl and gr accurate enough for the molecular survey.
    Supplemental material notes agreement within 5 percent generally, up to 20 percent for matrix-measured molecules; only CaF has a direct experimental gr comparison.
  • domain assumption Classical Monte-Carlo trajectories with adiabatic spin following and a known microwave field distribution model the trap Ramsey experiment.
    Used to attribute 60, 50 and 100 inverse-second decoherence rates to the three mechanisms; no error budget is given for the simulation itself.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Long rotational coherence times of molecules in a magnetic trap},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/3AKEUB2T}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:1908.11839}
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abstract

Polar molecules in superpositions of rotational states exhibit long-range dipolar interactions, but maintaining their coherence in a trapped sample is a challenge. We present calculations that show many laser-coolable molecules have convenient rotational transitions that are exceptionally insensitive to magnetic fields. We verify this experimentally for CaF where we find a transition with sensitivity below 5 Hz G$^{-1}$ and use it to demonstrate a rotational coherence time of 6.4(8) ms in a magnetic trap. Simulations suggest it is feasible to extend this to more than 1 s using a smaller cloud in a biased magnetic trap.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Calculated magnetic sensitivities of transitions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. (a) Ramsey spectroscopy of the transition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. (a) Ramsey fringes for molecules in the magnetic [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

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