Polyatomic Molecules for Fundamental Symmetries and Quantum Science

Polyatomic molecules offer unique advantages to precision measurement, quantum sensing, and fundamental physics as they can be engineered to match the needs of a wide range of scientific goals. In particular, they can combine the intrinsic sensitivity of polar molecules to fundamental symmetry violations with the ability to implement advanced quantum control methods. This provides a pathway to improvements by orders of magnitude in sensitivity to both leptonic and hadronic CP-violation, and other sources of physics beyond the Standard Model. This talk will present an overview of experimental and theoretical work in our lab toward this end, including experimental searches for the electron EDM and nuclear magnetic quadrupole moments, and theoretical work designing polyatomic molecules containing exotic nuclei to explore fundamental nuclear physics and novel structures to provide new tools for quantum sensing.