The buffer gas beam: An intense, cold, and slow source for atoms and molecules

NR Hutzler, HI Lu, JM Doyle - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Beams of atoms and molecules are stalwart tools for spectroscopy and
studies of collisional processes. 1− 4 The supersonic expansion technique can create cold …

Cold and controlled molecular beams: Production and applications

J Jankunas, A Osterwalder - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Experimental progress in positronium laser physics

DB Cassidy - The European Physical Journal D, 2018 - Springer
The field of experimental positronium physics has advanced significantly in the last few
decades, with new areas of research driven by the development of techniques for trapping …

A cryofuge for cold-collision experiments with slow polar molecules

X Wu, T Gantner, M Koller, M Zeppenfeld… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Ultracold molecules represent a fascinating research frontier in physics and chemistry, but it
has proven challenging to prepare dense samples at low velocities. Here, we present a …

Cold state-selected molecular collisions and reactions

BK Stuhl, MT Hummon, J Ye - Annual review of physical …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
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 …

A buffer gas beam source for short, intense and slow molecular pulses

S Truppe, M Hambach, SM Skoff, NE Bulleid… - Journal of Modern …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Experiments with cold molecules usually begin with a molecular source. We describe the
construction and characteristics of a cryogenic buffer gas source of CaF molecules. The …

Laser-driven acceleration of neutral particles

C Maher-McWilliams, P Douglas, PF Barker - Nature Photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Precise control over the translational motion of atoms and molecules is important for a large
range of scientific and industrial processes. Applications range from surface growth and …

Electric-Field-Controlled Cold Dipolar Collisions between Trapped Molecules

M Koller, F Jung, J Phrompao, M Zeppenfeld… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Reaching high densities is a key step toward cold-collision experiments with polyatomic
molecules. We use a cryofuge to load up to 2× 10 7 CH 3 F molecules into a boxlike electric …

Experimental methods of molecular matter-wave optics

T Juffmann, H Ulbricht, M Arndt - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
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Nondestructive detection of polar molecules via Rydberg atoms

M Zeppenfeld - Europhysics Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A highly sensitive, general, and preferably nondestructive technique to detect polar
molecules would greatly advance a number of fields, in particular quantum science with cold …