Hybrid systems of laser-cooled trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single
experimental setup have recently emerged as a new platform for fundamental research in …

The prospect of cooling matter down to temperatures that are close to absolute zero raises
intriguing questions about how chemical reactivity changes under these extreme conditions …

Chemical reactions represent a class of quantum problems that challenge both the current
theoretical understanding and computational capabilities. Reactions that occur at ultralow …

Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics techniques allowed the cooling of simple
molecules down to the ultracold regime (1 mK) and opened opportunities to study chemical …

STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) is a powerful laser-based method, usually
involving two photons, for efficient and selective transfer of populations between quantum …

Collisional complexes, which are formed as intermediate states in molecular collisions, are
typically short-lived and decay within picoseconds. However, in ultracold collisions involving …

Ultracold single molecules have wide-ranging potential applications, such as ultracold
chemistry, precision measurements, quantum simulation, and quantum computation …

Recent years have seen the emergence of a new generation of collision and cold-chemistry
experiments in which cold atoms and ions are brought into contact in a controlled way in …

Chemical reactions in the quantum degenerate regime are described by the mixing of matter-
wave fields. In many-body reactions involving bosonic reactants and products, such as …

We present a method for producing three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates using
only laser cooling. The phase transition to condensation is crossed with 2.5× 10 4 Rb 87 …