We describe the first precision measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment (eEDM, de) using trapped molecular ions, demonstrating the application of spin interrogation times over 700 ms to achieve high sensitivity and stringent rejection of systematic errors. Through electron spin resonance spectroscopy on 180 Hf 19 F + in its metastable 3 ∆1 electronic state, we obtain de = (0.9 ± 7.7stat ± 1.7syst) × 10 −29 e cm, resulting in an upper bound of |de| < 1.3 × 10 −28 e cm (90% confidence). Our result provides independent confirmation of the current upper bound of |de| < 9.3 × 10−29 e cm [J. Baron et al., Science 343, 269 (2014)], and offers the potential to improve on this limit in the near future.A search for a nonzero permanent electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].The most precise eEDM measurements to date were performed using thermal beams of neutral atoms or molecules [3][4][5]. These experiments benefited from excellent statistical sensitivity provided by a high flux of neutral atoms or molecules, and decades of past work have produced a thorough understanding of their common sources of systematic error. Nonetheless, a crucial systematics check can be provided by independent measurements conducted using different physical systems and experimental techniques. Moreover, techniques that allow longer interrogation times offer significant potential for sensitivity improvements in eEDM searches and other tests of fundamental physics [10].In this Letter, we report on a precision measurement of the eEDM using molecular ions confined in a radio frequency (RF) and our use of an RF trap allow us to attain spin precession times in excess of 700 ms -nearly three orders of magnitude longer than in contemporary neutral beam experiments. This exceptionally long interrogation time allows us to obtain high eEDM sensitivity despite our lower count rate. In addition, performing an experiment on trapped particles permits the measurement of spin precession fringes at arbitrary free-evolution times, making our experiment relatively immune to systematic errors due to initial phase shifts associated with imperfectly characterized state preparation.Our apparatus and experimental sequence, shown schematically in Fig. 1, have been described in detail previously [11,12,[18][19][20][21]. We produce HfF by ablation of Hf metal into a pulsed supersonic expansion of Ar and SF 6 . The reaction of Hf with SF 6 produces HfF, which is entrained in the supersonic expansion and rovibrationally cooled through collisions with Ar. The resulting beam enters the RF trap, where HfF is ionized with pulsed UV lasers at 309.4 nm and 367.7 nm to form HfF + in its 1 Σ + , v = 0 ground vibronic state [19,20]. The ions are stopped at the center of the RF trap by a pulsed voltage on the radial trap electrodes, then confined by a DC axial electric quadrupole field and an RF radial electric quadrupole field with frequency f rf = 50 kHz. We next adiabatically turn on a spatially uniform electric bias field E rot ≈ 24 V/c...

The emergence of quasiparticles in strongly interacting matter represents one of the cornerstones of modern physics. However, when different phases of matter compete near a quantum critical point, the very existence of quasiparticles comes under question. Here we create Bose polarons near quantum criticality by immersing atomic impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with near-resonant interactions. Using locally-resolved radiofrequency spectroscopy, we probe the energy, spectral width, and short-range correlations of the impurities as a function of temperature. Far below the superfluid critical temperature, the impurities form well-defined quasiparticles. However, their inverse lifetime, given by their spectral width, is observed to increase linearly with temperature at the Planckian scale k B T , a hallmark of quantum critical behavior. Close to the BEC critical temperature, the spectral width exceeds the binding energy of the impurities, signaling a breakdown of the quasiparticle picture. arXiv:1904.02685v3 [cond-mat.quant-gas]

We demonstrate microwave dressing on ultracold, fermionic 23 Na 40 K ground-state molecules and observe resonant dipolar collisions with cross sections exceeding 3 times the s-wave unitarity limit. The origin of these interactions is the resonant alignment of the approaching molecules' dipoles along the intermolecular axis, which leads to strong attraction. We explain our observations with a conceptually simple two-state picture based on the Condon approximation. Furthermore, we perform coupled-channel calculations that agree well with the experimentally observed collision rates. The resonant microwaveinduced collisions found here enable controlled, strong interactions between molecules, of immediate use for experiments in optical lattices.