Ding
I am a postdoctoral research associate working towards producing the ultracold YO molecules using direct laser cooling. I completed my PhD in Dzmitry Matsukevich's group at National University of Singapore, where I investigated the quantum nonlinearity in trapped ytterbium ions, and the quantum logic technique for single molecular ion.
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