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- Entanglement is essential for various quantum technologies like information processing, simulation, and enhanced sensing.
- Researchers have proposed using molecules as a platform for quantum science due to their complex interactions.
- The study successfully shows how to create on-demand entanglement in carefully controlled molecules using electric dipolar interactions, paving the way for future quantum applications.
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Entanglement is crucial to many quantum applications, including quantum information processing, quantum simulation, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Because of their rich internal structure and interactions, molecules have been proposed as a promising platform for quantum science. Deterministic entanglement of individually controlled molecules has nevertheless been a long-standing experimental challenge. We demonstrate on-demand entanglement of individually prepared molecules. Using the electric dipolar interaction between pairs of molecules prepared by using a reconfigurable optical tweezer array, we deterministically created Bell pairs of molecules. Our results demonstrate the key building blocks needed for quantum applications and may advance quantum-enhanced fundamental physics tests that use trapped molecules.
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