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 new spectroscopic technique of photoassociation of ultracold atoms is reviewed, with an
emphasis on connecting this area to traditional bound-state molecular spectroscopy. In …

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 …

A polar molecule experiences a force in an inhomogeneous electric field. Using this force,
neutral molecules can be decelerated and trapped. It is shown here that this can in principle …

This review describes the methods of trapping cold atoms in electromagnetic fields and in
the combined electromagnetic and gravity fields. We discuss first the basic types of the …

We have produced ultracold heteronuclear KRb molecules by the process of
photoassociation in a two-species magneto-optical trap. Following decay of the …

This review summarizes progress in coherent control as well as relevant recent
achievements, highlighting, among several different schemes of coherent control, wave …

There has been tremendous progress in atomic laser cooling1–3 in recent years, but
progress at manipulating even simple molecules during the same period has been …

Ultracold potassium molecules are produced in the X Σ g+ 1 electronic ground state by
photoassociation in a magneto-optical trap. They are detected sensitively and selectively by …

We have developed a two-step “R-transfer” method that efficiently produces translationally
ultracold potassium molecules in the X Σ g+ 1 electronic ground state. Laser-cooled atoms …