Engineering synthetic dimensions, where the physics of additional spatial dimensions is simulated within the internal states of a quantum system, allows the realisation of phenomena not otherwise accessible in experiments. Ultracold ground-state polar molecules are an ideal platform to encode synthetic dimensions, offering access to large Hilbert spaces of long-lived internal states associated with the rotational and hyperfine degrees of freedom, that can be coupled together with microwave fields to simulate tunnelling.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00745
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