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 …

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 …

This paper presents a review of the current state of the art in the research field of cold and
ultracold molecules. It serves as an introduction to the focus issue ofNew Journal of Physics …

Recently, remarkable advances have been made in coupling a number of high-Q modes of
nano-mechanical systems to high-finesse optical cavities, with the goal of reaching regimes …

Written by two of the world's leading researchers in the field, this is a systematic introduction
to the fundamental principles of coherent control, and to the underlying physics and …

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 Recent advances,,,, in the magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling of atoms to
nanokelvin temperatures have opened important areas of research, such as Bose–Einstein …

It is experimentally demonstrated that a beam of neutral dipolar molecules can be efficiently
decelerated with a time-varying electric field. A pulsed beam of neutral metastable CO …

Certain molecules, it seems, may be laser cooled by methods technically similar to those
applied with abundant success in atomic physics. We discuss the spectroscopic criteria …

We report on the formation of translationally cold Cs 2 ground-state molecules through
photoassociation of laser-cooled cesium atoms in a magneto-optical trap. The cold …