Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics techniques allowed the cooling of simple
molecules down to the ultracold regime (1 mK) and opened opportunities to study chemical …

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 …

Ultracold polyatomic molecules have potentially wide-ranging applications in quantum
simulation and computation, particle physics, and quantum chemistry. For atoms and small …

Precision measurements in molecules have advanced rapidly in recent years through
developments in techniques to cool, trap, and control. The complexity of molecules makes …

As a heavy molecule, barium monofluoride (BaF) presents itself as a promising candidate for
measuring permanent electric dipole moment. Here we report the realization of three …

We present a practical roadmap to achieve optical cycling and laser cooling of asymmetric
top molecules (ATMs). Our theoretical analysis describes how reduced molecular symmetry …

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 …

Currently, there is great interest in laser cooling of barium monofluoride (BaF) molecules for
precision tests of fundamental symmetries. We use high-resolution absorption spectroscopy …

We present the first experimental demonstration of radiation pressure force deflection and
direct laser cooling for barium monohydride (BaH) molecules resulting from multiple photon …