In recent years, an increasingly large variety of molecular species have been successfully
cooled to low energies, and innovative techniques continue to emerge to reach ever more …

A diversity of experimental techniques has been developed over the last 25 years to create
samples of molecular gases at temperatures close to the Absolute Zero—here we consider …

Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made to extend the tools of laser
cooling and trap** to molecules. Those same tools have recently been applied to …

We demonstrate optical cycling and laser cooling of a cryogenic buffer-gas beam of calcium
monohydride (CaH) molecules. We measure vibrational branching ratios for laser cooling …

We propose to sympathetically slow and cool polar molecules in a cold, low-density beam
using laser-cooled Rydberg atoms. The elastic collision cross sections between molecules …

The YbF molecule is a sensitive system for measuring the electron's electric dipole moment.
The precision of this measurement can be improved by direct laser cooling of the molecules …

We propose diatomic molecules built from gold and carbon-group atoms as promising
candidates for optical cycling and precision measurements. We show that this class of …

The extraordinary success in laser cooling, trap**, and coherent manipulation of atoms
has energized the efforts in extending this exquisite control to molecules. Not only are …

Optical control of polyatomic molecules promises new opportunities in precision metrology
and fundamental chemistry, as well as quantum information and many-body science …

We study the properties of a cryogenic buffer gas source that uses a low-temperature two-
stage buffer gas cell to produce very slow beams of ytterbium monofluoride molecules. The …