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We report laser cooling and trapping of yttrium monoxide molecules in an optical lattice. We show that gray molasses cooling remains exceptionally efficient for yttrium monoxide molecules inside the lattice with a molecule temperature as low as 6.1(6) μK. This approach has produced a trapped sample of 1200 molecules, with a peak spatial density of ∼1.2×10^{10} cm^{-3}, and a peak phase-space density of ∼3.1×10^{-6}. By ramping down the lattice depth, we cool the molecules further to 1.0(2) μK, 20 times colder than previously reported for laser-cooled molecules in a trap.We report laser cooling and trapping of yttrium monoxide molecules in an optical lattice. We show that gray molasses cooling remains exceptionally efficient for yttrium monoxide molecules inside the lattice with a molecule temperature as low as 6.1(6) μK. This approach has produced a trapped sample of 1200 molecules, with a peak spatial density of ∼1.2×10^{10} cm^{-3}, and a peak phase-space density of ∼3.1×10^{-6}. By ramping down the lattice depth, we cool the molecules further to 1.0(2) μK, 20 times colder than previously reported for laser-cooled molecules in a trap.

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