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 …

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 …

Molecules have vibrational, rotational, spin-orbit and hyperfine degrees of freedom or
quantum states, each of which responds in a unique fashion to external electromagnetic …

Ultracold polar molecules offer a multitude of fascinating possibilities for physical research.
Proposals for their use reach from quantum chemistry, where they enable detailed studies of …

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices allow the study of large ensembles of strongly interacting
quantum particles in an isolated environment. They are widely used as analogue quantum …

Gaining precise control over atomic, molecular and charged-particle interactions at energies
corresponding to millikelvin and sub-millikelvin temperatures, where quantum effects …