Photoassociation is the process in which two colliding atoms absorb a photon to form an
excited molecule. The development of laser-cooling techniques for producing gases at …

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 …

Rydberg atoms have an electron in a state with a very high principal quantum number, and
as a result can exhibit unusually long-range interactions. One example is the bonding of two …

Atoms, Molecules and Photons Page 1 Wolfgang Demtröder GRADUATE TEXTS IN
PHYSICS Atoms, Molecules and Photons An Introduction to Atomic-, Molecular- and Quantum …

In a recent letter (J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 105, 1), we argued that, although all major
thermochemical tables recommend a value of (OH) based on a spectroscopic approach, the …

We study the photoassociative collisional loss of laser-cooled Rb atoms from a far-off
resonance optical dipole force atom trap. We obtain a well-resolved photoassociation …

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 have observed the spectrum of long range molecular states of singly excited Na 2
formed by photoassociation during ultracold associative ionization collisions of laser-cooled …

Photoassociation of molecules out of an ultracold gas was thefirst successful approach to
create a gas of molecules in the electronic ground state at translational temperatures in the …

Progress on research in the field of molecules at cold and ultracold temperatures is reported
in this review. It covers extensively the experimental methods to produce, detect and …