Ultracold chemistry as a testbed for few-body physics

T Karman, M Tomza, J Pérez-Ríos - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold atoms, molecules and ions provide a unique playground to explore chemistry at
ultracold temperatures. In this Review, we discuss what makes these systems particularly …

Quantum mixtures of ultracold gases of neutral atoms

C Baroni, G Lamporesi, M Zaccanti - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
After decades of improvements in cooling techniques of several atomic species and in
finding methods for the achievement of stable quantum mixtures, the field is now ready for …

Field-linked resonances of polar molecules

XY Chen, A Schindewolf, S Eppelt, R Bause, M Duda… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Scattering resonances are an essential tool for controlling the interactions of ultracold atoms
and molecules. However, conventional Feshbach scattering resonances, which have been …

Cold and ultracold molecules in the twenties

TP Softley - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Observation of a molecular bond between ions and Rydberg atoms

N Zuber, VSV Anasuri, M Berngruber, YQ Zou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Atoms with a highly excited electron, called Rydberg atoms, can form unusual types of
molecular bonds,,–. The bonds differ from the well-known ionic and covalent bonds, not only …

Cold trapped molecular ions and hybrid platforms for ions and neutral particles

M Deiß, S Willitsch, J Hecker Denschlag - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Recent years have seen the emergence of a new generation of collision and cold-chemistry
experiments in which cold atoms and ions are brought into contact in a controlled way in …

Many-body bound states and induced interactions of charged impurities in a bosonic bath

GE Astrakharchik, LAP Ardila, K Jachymski… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Induced interactions and bound states of charge carriers immersed in a quantum medium
are crucial for the investigation of quantum transport. Ultracold atom-ion systems can …

Observation of chemical reactions between a trapped ion and ultracold Feshbach dimers

H Hirzler, RS Lous, E Trimby, J Pérez-Ríos… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We measure chemical reactions between a single trapped Yb+ 174 ion and ultracold Li 2
dimers. This produces LiYb+ molecular ions that we detect via mass spectrometry. We …

Trap-assisted formation of atom–ion bound states

M Pinkas, O Katz, J Wengrowicz, N Akerman, R Ozeri - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Pairs of free particles cannot form bound states in an elastic collision due to momentum and
energy conservation. In many ultracold experiments, however, the particles collide in the …

Tomography of Feshbach resonance states

B Margulis, KP Horn, DM Reich, M Upadhyay, N Kahn… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Feshbach resonances are fundamental to interparticle interactions and become particularly
important in cold collisions with atoms, ions, and molecules. In this work, we present the …