External field control of spin-dependent rotational decoherence of ultracold polar molecules

TL;DR

This paper explores how external magnetic, electric, and laser fields can be tuned to create trapping conditions that minimize decoherence in ultracold polar molecules, enabling better control of their quantum states for quantum information applications.

Contribution

It identifies specific trapping conditions where internal states of ultracold polar molecules experience identical potentials, reducing inhomogeneity effects and enabling decoherence-free subspaces.

Findings

Identified trapping conditions for identical potentials of internal states.

Analyzed the effects of field orientation and polarization on decoherence.

Evaluated the induced dipole moments for interaction control.

Abstract

We determine trapping conditions for ultracold polar molecules, where pairs of internal states experience identical trapping potentials. Such conditions could ensure that detrimental effects of inevitable inhomogeneities across an ultracold sample are significantly reduced. In particular, we investigate the internal rovibronic and hyperfine quantum states of ultracold fermionic ground-state $^{40}$K$^{87}$Rb polar molecules, when static magnetic, static electric, and trapping laser fields are simultaneously applied. Understanding the effect of changing the relative orientation or polarization of these three fields is of crucial importance for creation of decoherence-free subspaces built from two or more rovibronic states. Moreover, we evaluate the induced dipole moment of the molecule in the presence of these fields, which will allow control of interactions between molecules in different sites of an optical lattice and study the influence of the interaction anisotropy on the ability to entangle polar molecules.