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Book SynopsisThere have been enormous recent advances in our ability to produce and trap samples of translationally cold molecules (below 1 K) and ultracold molecules (below 1 mK). Molecules such as NH3, OH and NH have been cooled from room temperature to the milliKelvin regime by a variety of methods including buffer-gas cooling and Stark deceleration. Bose-Einstein condensates have been produced for dimers of both bosonic and fermionic alkali metal atoms, and the first signatures of ultracold triatomic and tetraatomic molecules have been observed. This book will include both cooling of molecules from high temperatures and formation of molecules in ultracold atomic gases; molecules in cold ionic gases and in helium droplets will also be covered. .
Table of ContentsMolecular Collisions, from Warm to Ultracold; Testing the Time-invariance of Fundamental Constants Using Microwave Spectroscopy on Cold Diatomic Radicals; Prospects for Measuring the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Using Electrically Trapped Polar Molecules; Buffer Gas Cooling of Polyatomic Ions in rf Multi-electrode Traps; Ion-molecule Chemistry at Very Low Temperatures: Cold Chemical Reactions Between Coulomb-crystallized Ions and Velocity-selected Neutral Molecules; Collision Experiments with Stark-decelerated Beams; Dynamics of Oh(2p)-He Collisions in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields; Production of Cold ND3 by Kinematic Cooling; Manipulating the Motion of Large Neutral Molecules; Sympathetic Cooling by Collisions with Ultracold Rare Gas Atoms, and Recent Progress in Optical Stark Deceleration; Prospects for Sympathetic Cooling of Polar Molecules: NH with Alkali-metal and Alkaline-earth Atoms - a New Hope; Continuous Guided Beams of Slow and Internally Cold Polar Molecules; Broadband Lasers to Detect and Cool the Vibration of Cold Molecules; Dark State Experiments with Ultracold, Deeply-bound Triplet Molecules; Precision Molecular Spectroscopy for Ground State Transfer of Molecular Quantum Gases; Rotational Spectroscopy of Single Carbonyl Sulfide Molecules Embedded in Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets; Self-organisation and Cooling of a Large Ensemble of Particles in Optical Cavities; Formation of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules in the Lowest Vibrational Levels by Photoassociation; Ultracold Polar Molecules near Quantum Degeneracy; Ultracold Molecules from Ultracold Atoms: A Case Study with the KRb Molecule; Two-photon Coherent Control of Femtosecond Photoassociation; A Pump---probe Study of the Photoassociation of Cold Rubidium Molecules; Fano Profiles in Two-photon Photoassociation Spectra.
