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 …

▪ Abstract The motion of polar molecules can be controlled by time-varying inhomogeneous
electric fields. In a Stark decelerator, this is exploited to accelerate, transport, or decelerate a …

A pulsed beam of ground state OH radicals is slowed down using a Stark decelerator and is
subsequently loaded into an electrostatic trap. Characterization of the molecular beam …

The presence of electric or microwave fields can modify the long-range forces between
ultracold dipolar molecules in such a way as to engineer weakly bound states of molecule …

We investigate the scattering cross section of aligned dipolar molecules in low-temperature
gases. Over a wide range of collision energies relevant to contemporary experiments, the …

We investigate the Bose-Einstein condensation of fermionic pairs in a uniform two-
component Fermi gas, obtaining an explicit formula for the condensate density as a function …

Collisions of polar Σ 1 state molecules at ultralow energies are considered, within a model
that accounts for long-range dipole-dipole interactions, plus rotation of the molecules. We …

Optical pumping by blackbody radiation is a feature shared by all polar molecules and
fundamentally limits the time that these molecules can be kept in a single quantum state in a …

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate of polar molecules in a harmonic trap, where the
effective dipole may be tuned by an external field. We demonstrate that taking into account …

We describe and justify a simple model for the dynamics associated with rapid sweeps
across a Feshbach resonance, from the atomic to the molecular side, in an ultracold Fermi …