Towards chemistry at absolute zero

BR Heazlewood, TP Softley - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Resonant collisional shielding of reactive molecules using electric fields

K Matsuda, L De Marco, JR Li, WG Tobias, G Valtolina… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Full control of molecular interactions, including reactive losses, would open new frontiers in
quantum science. We demonstrate extreme tunability of ultracold chemical reaction rates by …

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 …

Manipulation and control of molecular beams

SYT van de Meerakker, HL Bethlem… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …

Observation of magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold 23Na40K + 40K collisions

H Yang, DC Zhang, L Liu, YX Liu, J Nan, B Zhao… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Resonances in ultracold collisions involving heavy molecules are difficult to simulate
theoretically and have proven challenging to detect. Here we report the observation of …

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 …

Ultracold sticky collisions: theoretical and experimental status

R Bause, A Christianen, A Schindewolf… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Collisional complexes, which are formed as intermediate states in molecular collisions, are
typically short-lived and decay within picoseconds. However, in ultracold collisions involving …

Cold and ultracold molecules in the twenties

TP Softley - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A diversity of experimental techniques has been developed over the last 25 years to create
samples of molecular gases at temperatures close to the Absolute Zero—here we consider …

Collisional cooling of ultracold molecules

H Son, JJ Park, W Ketterle, AO Jamison - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Since the original work on Bose–Einstein condensation,, the use of quantum degenerate
gases of atoms has enabled the quantum emulation of important systems in condensed …