Honoring the Legacy of William C. Stwalley: Cold Atoms, Molecules, and Quantum Control

Presentations

• From photoassociation to BEC of ultracold polar molecules: a personal perspective in memory of Dr. Stwalley

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  June 3, 2026, 10:30 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Dajun Wang

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Authors

  • Dajun Wang

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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• Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dipolar Molecules

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  June 3, 2026, 11:00 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:30 AM

  Publication: [1] Bigagli, Yuan, Zhang, et al., Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules, Nature 631, 289-293 (2024)
  [2] Yuan, Zhang, et al., Extreme loss suppression and wide tunability of dipolar interactions in an ultracold molecular gas, arXiv:2505.08773 (2025)
  [3] Zhang, Yuan, et al., Observation of self-bound droplets of ultracold dipolar molecules, arXiv:2507.15208 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Will

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Sebastian Will

    • Columbia University

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• Molecular Angular Momentum Alignment and Orientation Using Dressed States

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:30 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Ergin Ahmed

    • Temple University

  Authors

  • Ergin Ahmed

    • Temple University

  • Jacob Stahovich

    • Temple University

  • Brendan Rowe

    • Thorlabs

  • John Huennekens

    • Lehigh University

  • A Lyyra

    • Temple University

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• High-resolution laser spectroscopy of the (2) ³∏_g state of Rb₂

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:42 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:54 AM

  Publication: 1] S. Haze et al., Controlling few-body reaction pathways using a Feshbach resonance, Nat. Phys. 21, 228 (2025)
  [2] Ye Huang, Production, detection and trapping of ultracold molecular rubidium, PhD thesis, University of Connecticut (2006)
  [3] Marco Ascoli, Spectroscopy of states with ion-pair character near Rb(5s)+Rb(4d), PhD thesis, University of Connecticut (2015)

  Presenters

  • Johannes Hecker Denschlag

    • University Ulm

  Authors

  • Johannes Hecker Denschlag

    • University Ulm

  • Dominik Dorer

    • Universität Ulm

  • Eberhard Tiemann

    • Universität Hannover

  • Shinsuke Haze

  • Markus Deiss

    • Universität Ulm

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• Evaporative cooling of polar molecules to Fermi degeneracy in 3D and 2D confinement

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:54 AM – June 3, 2026, 12:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Tim de Jongh

    • JILA

  Authors

  • Tim de Jongh

    • JILA

  • Junyu Lin

    • JILA

  • Annette Carroll

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Phillip Martin

  • Calder Miller

    • CU Boulder

  • Jun Ye

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Observation of van der Waals shielding between ultracold polar molecules in optical tweezers

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 12:06 PM – June 3, 2026, 12:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Xing-Yan Chen

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Xing-Yan Chen

    • Princeton University

  • Connor Holland

    • Princeton University

  • Callum Welsh

    • Princeton University

  • Christopher Tong

    • Princeton University

  • Lawrence Cheuk

    • Princeton University

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• Coherent Formation of Ground-State Lithium Dimers via Magnetoassociation and STIRAP

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 12:18 PM – June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM

  Publication: J. Zhang, P. S. Julienne, and Y. Liu, "​​​​​​​Characterization of Fesbach resonances in ${ }^6 \mathrm{Li}-{ }^7 \mathrm{Li}$ using improved interaction potentials", in preparation(2026)

  Presenters

  • Jingchen Zhang

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Jingchen Zhang

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Paul Julienne

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Yu Liu

    • University of Maryland College Park

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