The motion of neutral molecules in a beam can be manipulated and controlled with
inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields. Static fields can be used to deflect or focus …

The field of cold molecules has become an important source of new insight in fundamental
chemistry and molecular physics. High-resolution spectroscopy benefits from translationally …

Ensembles of cold atomic and molecular ions in ion traps prepared at millikelvin
temperatures by laser and sympathetic cooling have recently found considerable interest in …

The rapid development of experimental techniques to produce ultracold alkali molecules
opens the ways to manipulate them and to control their dynamics using external electric …

Over the past decade, and particularly the past five years, a quiet revolution has been
building at the border between atomic physics and experimental quantum chemistry. The …

We present a method which delivers a continuous, high-density beam of slow and internally
cold polar molecules. In our source, warm molecules are first cooled by collisions with a …

A detailed description of a merged beam apparatus for the study of low energy molecular
scattering is given. This review is intended to guide any scientist who plans to construct a …

We have focused and decelerated benzonitrile (C 7 H 5 N) molecules from a molecular
beam, using an array of time-varying inhomogeneous electric fields in alternating-gradient …

We present a study of Sisyphus cooling of molecules: The scattering of a single photon
removes a substantial amount of the molecular kinetic energy and an optical pumping step …

Taming a broader range of molecular species with large density has been a long-standing
goal in molecular science. Heavy molecules with masses greater than 100 amu are of …