Ultracold molecules formed by photoassociation: Heteronuclear dimers, inelastic collisions, and interactions with ultrashort laser pulses

J Ulmanis, J Deiglmayr, M Repp, R Wester… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …

The formation and interactions of cold and ultracold molecules: new challenges for interdisciplinary physics

O Dulieu, C Gabbanini - Reports on progress in physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Wave-packet and coherent control dynamics

K Ohmori - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2009 - annualreviews.org
This review summarizes progress in coherent control as well as relevant recent
achievements, highlighting, among several different schemes of coherent control, wave …

Stabilization of ultracold molecules using optimal control theory

CP Koch, JP Palao, R Kosloff, F Masnou-Seeuws - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2004 - APS
In recent experiments on ultracold matter, molecules have been produced from ultracold
atoms by photoassociation, Feshbach resonances, and three-body recombination. The …

Coherent control of ultracold photoassociation

CP Koch, M Shapiro - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Photoassociation, forming molecules from ultracold atoms using laser
light, is a prime example of coherent control: The process is complex and poses many …

Molecule formation in ultracold atomic gases

JM Hutson, P Soldan - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This review describes recent experimental and theoretical advances in forming molecules in
ultracold gases of trapped alkali metal atoms, both by magnetic tuning through Feshbach …

Formation of ultracold molecules (T≤ 200 μK) via photoassociation in a gas of laser-cooled atoms

F Masnou-Seeuws, P Pillet - Advances In Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2001 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the formation of ultracold molecules—that is, at
temperatures well below 1 mK, the photoassociation scheme in a sample of laser-cooled …

Making ultracold molecules in a two-color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses

CP Koch, E Luc-Koenig, F Masnou-Seeuws - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2006 - APS
This theoretical paper investigates the formation of ground state molecules from ultracold
cesium atoms in a two-color scheme. Following previous work on photoassociation with …

Coherent Control of Ultracold Molecule Dynamics in a Magneto-Optical Trap<? format?> by Use of Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses

BL Brown, AJ Dicks, IA Walmsley - Physical Review Letters, 2006 - APS
We have studied the effects of chirped femtosecond laser pulses on the formation of
ultracold molecules in a Rb magneto-optical trap. We have found that application of chirped …

Photoassociation of cold atoms with chirped laser pulses: Time-dependent calculations and analysis of the adiabatic transfer within a two-state model

E Luc-Koenig, R Kosloff, F Masnou-Seeuws… - Physical Review A …, 2004 - APS
This theoretical paper presents numerical calculations for the photoassociation of ultracold
cesium atoms with a chirped laser pulse and a detailed analysis of the results. In contrast …