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 …

This paper presents a review of the current state of the art in the research field of cold and
ultracold molecules. It serves as an introduction to the focus issue ofNew Journal of Physics …

We propose a novel physical realization of a quantum computer. The qubits are electric
dipole moments of ultracold diatomic molecules, oriented along or against an external …

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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 …

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 …

We have produced ultracold, polar R b C s* molecules via photoassociation in a laser-
cooled mixture of Rb and Cs atoms. Using a model of the R b C s* molecular interaction …

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

Using resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization, we detect ultracold, metastable RbCs
molecules formed in their lowest triplet state a Σ+ 3 via photoassociation in a laser-cooled …