Physicists create an optical tweezer array of individual polyatomic molecules for the first time

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Physicists create an optical tweezer array of individual polyatomic molecules for the first time

A team of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in trapping individual polyatomic molecules in optical tweezer arrays for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they achieved their feat and the possible uses for it. A Research Briefing also describes their work in the same journal issue.