TY - JOUR T1 - Long-lived dipolar molecules and Feshbach molecules in a 3D optical lattice JF - Physical Review Letters Y1 - 2012 A1 - Amodsen Chotia A1 - Brian Neyenhuis A1 - Steven A. Moses A1 - Bo Yan A1 - Jacob P. Covey A1 - Michael Foss-Feig A1 - Ana Maria Rey A1 - Deborah S. Jin A1 - Jun Ye AB - We have realized long-lived ground-state polar molecules in a 3D optical lattice, with a lifetime of up to 25 s, which is limited only by off-resonant scattering of the trapping light. Starting from a 2D optical lattice, we observe that the lifetime increases dramatically as a small lattice potential is added along the tube-shaped lattice traps. The 3D optical lattice also dramatically increases the lifetime for weakly bound Feshbach molecules. For a pure gas of Feshbach molecules, we observe a lifetime of >20 s in a 3D optical lattice; this represents a 100-fold improvement over previous results. This lifetime is also limited by off-resonant scattering, the rate of which is related to the size of the Feshbach molecule. Individually trapped Feshbach molecules in the 3D lattice can be converted to pairs of K and Rb atoms and back with nearly 100% efficiency. VL - 108 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4420v1 CP - 8 J1 - Phys. Rev. Lett. U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.080405 ER -