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 …

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 …

Laser cooling and trap**,, and magneto-optical trap** methods in particular, have
enabled groundbreaking advances in science, including Bose–Einstein condensation …

Magneto-optical trap** and sub-Doppler cooling have been essential to most experiments
with quantum degenerate gases, optical lattices, atomic fountains and many other …

We demonstrate one-dimensional sub-Doppler laser cooling of a beam of YbF molecules to
100 μ K. This is a key step towards a measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment …

Doppler and Sisyphus cooling of 174 YbOH are achieved and studied. This polyatomic
molecule has high sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model and represents a new …

The detection of variations of fundamental constants of the Standard Model would provide
us with compelling evidence of new physics, and could lift the veil on the nature of dark …

The prospect of cooling matter down to temperatures that are close to absolute zero raises
intriguing questions about how chemical reactivity changes under these extreme conditions …

Polar molecules offer a new platform for quantum simulation of systems with long-range
interactions, based on the electrostatic interaction between their electric dipole moments …

Direct laser cooling of molecules has reached a phase-space density exceeding 10-6 in
optical traps but with rather small molecular numbers. To progress toward quantum …