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 …

Direct observation of bimolecular reactions of ultracold KRb molecules

MG Hu, Y Liu, DD Grimes, YW Lin, AH Gheorghe… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Femtochemistry techniques have been instrumental in accessing the short time scales
necessary to probe transient intermediates in chemical reactions. In this study, we took the …

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 …

Control of reactive collisions by quantum interference

H Son, JJ Park, YK Lu, AO Jamison, T Karman… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In this study, we achieved magnetic control of reactive scattering in an ultracold mixture of
23Na atoms and 23Na6Li molecules. In most molecular collisions, particles react or are lost …

Collisions of ultracold molecules in bright and dark optical dipole traps

R Bause, A Schindewolf, R Tao, M Duda, XY Chen… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Understanding collisions between ultracold molecules is crucial for making stable molecular
quantum gases and harnessing their rich internal degrees of freedom for quantum …

Collisions of ultracold 23Na87Rb molecules with controlled chemical reactivities

X Ye, M Guo, ML González-Martínez, G Quéméner… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The collision of molecules at ultracold temperatures is of great importance to understand the
chemical interactions at the quantum regime. Although much theoretical work has been …

Controlling the scattering length of ultracold dipolar molecules

L Lassablière, G Quéméner - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
By applying a circularly polarized and slightly blue-detuned microwave field with respect to
the first excited rotational state of a dipolar molecule, one can engineer a long-range …

Quantum control of reactions and collisions at ultralow temperatures

B Zhao, JW Pan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
At temperatures close to absolute zero, the molecular reactions and collisions are
dominantly governed by quantum mechanics. Remarkable quantum phenomena such as …

Cold and controlled chemical reaction dynamics

J Toscano, HJ Lewandowski… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The prospect of studying state-to-state chemical reaction dynamics, with full control over all
of the reaction parameters, is becoming a reality for a small number of systems. Thanks to …