Ultracold molecules under control!

G Quemener, PS Julienne - Chemical Reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the physics and chemistry associated with the interactions,
collisions, and reactions of ultracold molecules, that is, molecules having translational …

Laser-cooled molecules

NJ Fitch, MR Tarbutt - Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
The last few years have seen rapid progress in the application of laser cooling to molecules.
In this review, we examine what kinds of molecules can be laser cooled, how to design a …

Collisionally stable gas of bosonic dipolar ground-state molecules

N Bigagli, C Warner, W Yuan, S Zhang, I Stevenson… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Stable ultracold ensembles of dipolar molecules hold great promise for studies of many-
body quantum physics, but high inelastic loss rates have been a long-standing challenge …

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules

N Bigagli, W Yuan, S Zhang, B Bulatovic, T Karman… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit intriguing emergent
behaviour. Atomic quantum gases,, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials,–all …

Ultracold gas of dipolar NaCs ground state molecules

I Stevenson, AZ Lam, N Bigagli, C Warner, W Yuan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report on the creation of bosonic NaCs molecules in their absolute rovibrational ground
state via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. We create ultracold gases with up to 22 000 …

Perspective: Ultracold molecules and the dawn of cold controlled chemistry

N Balakrishnan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Ultracold molecules offer unprecedented opportunities for the controlled interrogation of
molecular events, including chemical reactivity in the ultimate quantum regime. The …

Long-lived ultracold molecules with electric and magnetic dipole moments

TM Rvachov, H Son, AT Sommer, S Ebadi, JJ Park… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We create fermionic dipolar Na 23 Li 6 molecules in their triplet ground state from an
ultracold mixture of Na 23 and Li 6. Using magnetoassociation across a narrow Feshbach …

Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields

M Lemeshko, RV Krems, JM Doyle, S Kais - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

A Feshbach resonance in collisions between triplet ground-state molecules

JJ Park, YK Lu, AO Jamison, TV Tscherbul, W Ketterle - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Collisional resonances are important tools that have been used to modify interactions in
ultracold gases, for realizing previously unknown Hamiltonians in quantum simulations, for …

Ultracold Gas of Bosonic Ground-State Molecules

KK Voges, P Gersema, M Meyer zum Alten Borgloh… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report the creation of ultracold bosonic dipolar Na 23 K 39 molecules in their absolute
rovibrational ground state. Starting from weakly bound molecules immersed in an ultracold …