Ultracold molecules under control!

G Quemener, PS Julienne - Chemical Reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the physics and chemistry associated with the interactions,
collisions, and reactions of ultracold molecules, that is, molecules having translational …

Production of cold molecules via magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances

T Köhler, K Góral, PS Julienne - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances were employed to associate cold diatomic
molecules in a series of experiments involving both atomic Bose and two-spin-component …

Perspective: Ultracold molecules and the dawn of cold controlled chemistry

N Balakrishnan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Ultracold molecules offer unprecedented opportunities for the controlled interrogation of
molecular events, including chemical reactivity in the ultimate quantum regime. The …

Experiments and theory in cold and ultracold collisions

J Weiner, VS Bagnato, S Zilio, PS Julienne - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
The authors review progress in understanding the nature of atomic collisions occurring at
temperatures ranging from the millidegrees Kelvin to the nanodegrees Kelvin regime. The …

Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields

M Lemeshko, RV Krems, JM Doyle, S Kais - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present article is to review the major developments that have led to the
current understanding of molecule–field interactions and experimental methods for …

Conversion of an atomic Fermi gas to a long-lived molecular Bose gas

KE Strecker, GB Partridge, RG Hulet - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
We have converted an ultracold Fermi gas of L i 6 atoms into an ultracold gas of L i 2 6
molecules by adiabatic passage through a Feshbach resonance. Approximately 1.5× 10 5 …

Complex scattering lengths in multi-channel atom–molecule collisions

N Balakrishnan, V Kharchenko, RC Forrey… - Chemical Physics …, 1997 - Elsevier
It is shown that in the presence of inelastic scattering, zero energy elastic and inelastic
scattering can be characterized by a complex scattering length, the imaginary part of which …

Observation of ultracold ground-state potassium molecules

AN Nikolov, EE Eyler, XT Wang, J Li, H Wang… - Physical review …, 1999 - APS
Ultracold potassium molecules are produced in the X Σ g+ 1 electronic ground state by
photoassociation in a magneto-optical trap. They are detected sensitively and selectively by …

Experimental investigation of ultracold atom-molecule collisions

P Staanum, SD Kraft, J Lange, R Wester… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Ultracold collisions between Cs atoms and Cs 2 dimers in the electronic ground state are
observed in an optically trapped gas of atoms and molecules. The Cs 2 molecules are …

Quenching of Vibrations in Ultracold and Collisions

N Balakrishnan, RC Forrey, A Dalgarno - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
We present results of quantum mechanical scattering calculations including full rovibrational
coupling on the relaxation of vibrationally excited H 2 molecules in collision with ultracold 3 …