Progress on research in the field of molecules at cold and ultracold temperatures is reported
in this review. It covers extensively the experimental methods to produce, detect and …

We observe “trilobitelike” states of ultracold Rb 2 85 molecules, in which a ground-state
atom is bound by the electronic wave function of its Rydberg-atom partner. We populate …

We formulate the theory for a diatomic molecule in a spatially degenerate electronic state
interacting with a non-resonant laser field and investigate its rovibrational structure in the …

Three-body recombination is a collision process where two atoms combine to form a
molecule and a third atom carries away part of the released reaction energy. Here, we …

We explore the physical origin and the general validity of a propensity rule for the
conservation of the hyperfine spin state in three-body recombination. This rule was recently …

We report on the use of depletion spectroscopy to detect ultracold ground-state KRb
molecules with rotational resolution. The population of a specific ground-state vibrational …

New photoassociation data on the 0 u+ levels of Rb 2 below the 5S+ 5P 1/2 limit are
combined with older data (Cline et al 1994 Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 632) in a fit to potentials and …

Convenient state-selective detection methods are proposed for exploring triplet Rydberg
states from the metastable a 3 Σ+ state of ultracold KRb molecules by resonance-enhanced …

We present a thorough theoretical and experimental study of the electronic structure of
RbCa. The mixed alkali–alkaline earth molecule RbCa was formed on superfluid helium …

This paper reports a high-resolution experimental study and a numerical analysis of the Rb
2 6 1 Σ g+ ion-pair state. A large number of rovibrational term values spanning a wide range …