Quo vadis, cold molecules? - Editorial review

Abstract

We give a snapshot of the rapidly developing field of ultracold polar molecules abd walk the reader through the papers appearing in this topical issue.

References in corpus (36)

• Quantum computation with trapped polar molecules
• Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
• Experimental Study of the BEC-BCS Crossover Region in Lithium 6
• Weakly bound dimers of fermionic atoms
• Atom--Molecule Coherence in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
• Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped dipolar gases
• Tuning the scattering length with an optically induced Feshbach resonance
• Influence of nearly resonant light on the scattering length in low-temperature atomic gases
• Measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using YbF molecules
• Feshbach resonances in rubidium 87: Precision measurement and analysis
• Observation of Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in a Bose-Fermi Mixture
• Three-body problem in Fermi gases with short-range interparticle interaction
• A continuous source of translationally cold dipolar molecules
• Photoassociative Production and Trapping of Ultracold KRb Molecules
• Production of Ultracold, Polar RbCs* Molecules via Photoassociation
• Production and state-selective detection of ultracold, ground state RbCs molecules
• Slowing heavy, ground-state molecules using an alternating gradient decelerator
• Phase Space Manipulation of Cold Free Radical OH Molecules
• Ultracold dipolar gases - a challenge for experiments and theory
• Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold Na + Na_2 collisions
• Stabilization of Ultracold Molecules Using Optimal Control Theory
• Achieving a BCS transition in an atomic Fermi gas
• Photoassociation of cold atoms with chirped laser pulses: time-dependent calculations and analysis of the adiabatic transfer within a two-state model
• Superfluidity of trapped dipolar Fermi gases
• Slowing and cooling molecules and neutral atoms by time-varying electric field gradients
• Breaking van der Waals molecules with magnetic fields
• Giant Helium Dimers Produced by Photoassociation of Ultracold Metastable Atoms
• Ultracold collisions of oxygen molecules
• On the interaction of NH($X^3{\Sigma }^{-}$) molecules with rubidium atoms: implications for sympathetic cooling and the formation of extremely polar molecules
• Cold free radical molecules in the laboratory frame
• Field-linked States of Ultracold Polar Molecules
• Multichannel cold collisions between metastable Sr atoms
• Cold inelastic collisions between lithium and cesium in a two-species magneto-optical trap
• Making Cold Molecules by Time-dependent Feshbach Resonances
• Molecular vibration in cold collision theory
• Tuning the scattering length on the ground triplet state of Cs_2

Cited by in corpus (179)

• Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Gases
• Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices: mimicking condensed matter physics and beyond
• The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases
• Cold and Ultracold Molecules: Science, Technology, and Applications
• Production of cold molecules via magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances
• Formation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state
• Strongly correlated 2D quantum phases with cold polar molecules: controlling the shape of the interaction potential
• Strong dipolar effects in a quantum ferrofluid
• Observation of dipole-dipole interaction in a degenerate quantum gas
• Hybrid Quantum Processors: molecular ensembles as quantum memory for solid state circuits
• Quantum Gas of Deeply Bound Ground State Molecules
• The Buffer Gas Beam: An Intense, Cold, and Slow Source for Atoms and Molecules
• Ultracold Molecules in the Ro-Vibrational Triplet Ground State
• Molecules Near Absolute Zero and External Field Control of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics
• Manipulation of Molecules with Electromagnetic Fields
• Optical pumping and vibrational cooling of molecules
• Three-body interactions with cold polar molecules
• Spontaneously modulated spin textures in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
• Quantum degenerate two-species Fermi-Fermi mixture coexisting with a Bose-Einstein condensate
• Hidden order in 1D Bose insulators
• Rise and fall of hidden string order of lattice bosons
• Universal rate constants for reactive collisions of ultracold molecules
• Cold polar molecules in 2D traps: Tailoring interactions with external fields for novel quantum phases
• Quantum magnetism with multicomponent polar molecules in an optical lattice
• Species-specific optical lattices
• Coherent optical transfer of Feshbach molecules to a lower vibrational state
• Formation and interactions of cold and ultracold molecules: new challenges for interdisciplinary physics
• Magneto-electrostatic trapping of ground state OH molecules
• Cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy
• Calculations of static dipole polarizabilities of alkali dimers. Prospects for alignment of ultracold molecules
• Quantum fluids of self-assembled chains of polar molecules
• An AC electric trap for ground-state molecules
• Magnetic trapping and Zeeman relaxation of imidogen (NH X-triplet-Sigma)
• Collisional stability of fermionic Feshbach molecules
• Atom-molecule collisions in an optically trapped gas
• Prospects for an electron electric dipole moment search in metastable ThO and ThF${}^{+}$
• Ultracold Rb-OH collisions and prospects for sympathetic cooling
• Giant formation rates of ultracold molecules via Feshbach Optimized Photoassociation
• Molecular Dipolar Crystals as High Fidelity Quantum Memory for Hybrid Quantum Computing
• Continuous loading of an electrostatic trap for polar molecules
• Controlling collisions of ultracold atoms with dc electric fields
• Universal rates for reactive ultracold polar molecules in reduced dimensions
• Suppression of inelastic collisions of polar ${}^1\Sigma$ state molecules in an electrostatic field
• Making ultracold molecules in a two color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses
• Production of ultracold heteronuclear YbRb* molecules by photoassociation
• Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dependent scattering length
• Strongly interacting ultracold polar molecules
• Dysprosium magneto-optical traps
• Optical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation
• Coherent control with shaped femtosecond laser pulses applied to ultracold molecules
• Quantum Noise Analysis of Spin Systems Realized with Cold Atoms
• Alternating Gradient Focusing and Deceleration of Polar Molecules
• Universal ultracold collision rates for polar molecules of two alkali-metal atoms
• Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules
• Expansion dynamics of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
• Superfluidity and dimerization in a multilayered system of fermionic polar molecules
• Controlling Polar Molecules in Optical Lattices
• Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D${}_1$ line
• Alternating gradient focusing and deceleration of large molecules
• Piecewise adiabatic population transfer in a molecule via a wave packet
• Electric field-dependent dynamic polarizability and "magic" conditions for optical trapping of polar molecules
• Cruising through molecular bound state manifolds with radio frequency
• Quantum calculations of H2-H2 collisions: from ultracold to thermal energies
• Quantum phase gate and controlled entanglement with polar molecules
• Vibrational energy transfer in ultracold molecule - molecule collisions
• Long range scattering resonances in strong-field seeking states of polar molecules
• Strongly Correlated States of Ultracold Rotating Dipolar Fermi Gases
• Quantum melting of a crystal of dipolar bosons
• Cold collisions of OH and Rb. I: the free collision
• Two-particle scattering on the lattice: Phase shifts, spin-orbit coupling, and mixing angles
• Quantum theory of chemical reactions in the presence of electromagnetic fields
• Collisional properties of weakly bound heteronuclear dimers
• Collisional Control of Ground State Polar Molecules and Universal Dipolar Scattering
• Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory for cold molecular collisions
• Ordered structures in rotating ultracold Bose gases
• Dark resonances for ground state transfer of molecular quantum gases
• The prospects of sympathetic cooling of NH molecules with Li atoms
• Chemical reactions of ultracold alkali-metal dimers in the lowest-energy ${}^3\Sigma$ state
• Continuous guided beams of slow and internally cold polar molecules
• Optical shielding of destructive chemical reactions between ultracold ground-state NaRb molecules
• KRb Feshbach Resonances: Modeling the interatomic potential
• Collective excitation frequencies and stationary states of trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in the Thomas-Fermi regime
• Pseudo-potential of a power-law decaying interaction in two-dimensional systems
• Association of molecules using a resonantly modulated magnetic field
• Influence of a Feshbach resonance on the photoassociation of LiCs
• Total control over ultracold interactions via electric and magnetic fields
• Spinor dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates; Classical spin approach
• Clustered Wigner crystal phases of cold polar molecules in arrays of one-dimensional tubes
• Density Waves in Layered Systems with Fermionic Polar Molecules
• Coupling nanomechanical cantilevers to dipolar molecules
• Cold chemistry: a few-body perspective on impurity physics of a single ion in an ultracold bath
• Simultaneous magneto-optical trapping of lithium and ytterbium atoms towards production of ultracold polar molecules
• Complete transfer of populations from a single state to a pre-selected superposition of states using Piecewise Adiabatic Passage
• The polaron paradigm: a dual coupling effective band model
• Enhancement of the formation of ultracold ${}^{85}$Rb${}_2$ molecules due to resonant coupling
• Low-energy resonances and bound states of aligned bosonic and fermionic dipoles
• Mixing, demixing, and structure formation in a binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
• An analytic model of rotationally inelastic collisions of polar molecules in electric fields
• Water vapor at a translational temperature of one kelvin
• Universal resonant ultracold molecular scattering
• Few-Body Bound Complexes in One-dimensional Dipolar Gases and Non-Destructive Optical Detection
• Molecular vibrational cooling by Optical Pumping with shaped femtosecond pulses
• Dipole Interaction Mediated Laser Cooling of Polar Molecules to Ultra-cold Temperatures
• Efficient formation of deeply bound ultracold molecules probed by broadband detection
• Getting a Grip on the Transverse Motion in a Zeeman Decelerator
• Complexes of dipolar excitons in layered quasi-two-dimensional nanostructures
• Phase Separation in two-Species Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate with Interspecies Feshbach Resonance
• Probabilistic state preparation of a single molecular ion by projection measurement
• Creating ultracold molecules by collisions with ultracold rare gas atoms in an optical trap
• Long-range and frustrated spin-spin interactions in crystals of cold polar molecules
• Collective Dissipative Molecule Formation in a Cavity
• An effective many-body theory for strongly interacting polar molecules
• Internal-state thermometry by depletion spectroscopy in a cold guided beam of formaldehyde
• Ultracold gases far from equilibrium
• Multistage Zeeman deceleration of metastable neon
• Loss of molecules in magneto-electrostatic traps due to nonadiabatic transitions
• Three-dimensional modeling magneto-optical trapping of MgF molecule with multilevel rate equations
• Energy Dependence of Scattering Ground State Polar Molecules
• Cold collisions of complex polyatomic molecules
• Resonance phenomena in ultracold dipole-dipole scattering
• Impact of Electric Fields on Highly Excited Rovibrational States of Polar Dimers
• Deceleration and trapping of heavy diatomic molecules using a ring-decelerator
• Collisional effects in the formation of cold guided beams of polar molecules
• Formation of ultracold dipolar molecules in the lowest vibrational levels by photoassociation
• Model for the hyperfine structure of electronically-excited $\mathrm{KCs}$ molecules
• A supersonic beam of cold lithium hydride molecules
• Collisions of paramagnetic molecules in magnetic fields: an analytic model based on Fraunhofer diffraction of matter waves
• Precision molecular spectroscopy for ground state transfer of molecular quantum gases
• Cooling in a Bistable Optical Cavity
• Application of B-splines to determining eigen-spectrum of Feshbach molecules
• Towards photoassociation processes of ultracold rubidium trimers
• Long-range atom-surface interactions for cold atoms
• Bell-type inequalities for cold heteronuclear molecules
• A New Look at the Quantum Mechanics of the Harmonic Oscillator
• Magnetic quantum number resolved state-to-state chemistry
• Theory of cavity-assisted microwave cooling of polar molecules
• A dipolar droplet bound in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
• Vacuum Fluctuations induced Entanglement between Two Mesoscopic Systems
• Mesoscopic dipolar quantum crystals
• Comparative study of the rovibrational properties of heteronuclear alkali dimers in electric fields
• Model for the overall phase-space acceptance in a Zeeman decelerator
• Cavity cooling of translational and ro-vibrational motion of molecules: ab initio-based simulations for OH and NO
• Long range interactions between alkali and alkaline-earth atoms
• Ion-assisted ground-state cooling of a trapped polar molecule
• Study of dipole moments of LiSr and KRb molecules by quantum Monte Carlo methods
• Collisions of bosonic ultracold polar molecules in microwave traps
• Spectroscopy of formaldehyde in the 30140-30790cm^-1 range
• Molecular heat pump for rotational states
• Dynamics of ultracold dipolar particles in a confined geometry and tilted fields
• Competing structures in two dimensions: square-to-hexagonal transition
• Optical stimulated slowing of polar heavy-atom molecules with a constant beat phase
• Long-range states of the NaRb molecule near the Na($3^2{S}_{1/2}$)+Rb($5^2{P}_{3/2}$) asymptote
• A model analysis of rotationally inelastic Ar + H${}_2$O scattering in an electric field
• Triplet-singlet conversion in ultracold Cs${}_2$ and production of ground state molecules
• Heteronuclear quantum gas mixtures
• Strong-field effects in Rabi oscillations between a single state and a superposition of states
• Classification of zero-energy resonances by dissociation of Feshbach molecules
• Molecular ions in ultracold atomic gases: computed electronic interactions for \MgHion with Rb
• Evaporation limited loading of an atom trap
• Zeeman relaxation of MnH (X7Σ+) in collisions with 3He: mechanism and comparison with experiment
• Pair-eigenstates and mutual alignment of coupled molecular rotors in a magnetic field
• Superfluidity in density imbalanced bilayers of dipolar fermions
• Efficient production of polar molecular Bose-Einstein condensates via an all-optical R-type atom-molecule adiabatic passage
• Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory for cold molecular collisions with a strongly anisotropic potential energy surface
• A proposal for sympathetically cooling neutral molecules using cold ions
• Temperature-dependent rotationally inelastic collisions of OH- and He
• Dynamics of translational and rotational thermalization of AlF molecules via collisions with cryogenic helium
• Engineering long-range interactions between ultracold atoms with light
• Circulating Current States in Bilayer Fermionic and Bosonic Systems
• Quantum Phase Transitions and the Hidden Order in a Two-Chain Extended Boson Hubbard Model at Half-Odd-Integer Fillings
• Effective field theory for spinor dipolar Bose Einstein condensates
• Electric Dipole Moments and Static Dipole Polarizabilities of Alkali--Alkaline-Earth Molecules: Non-relativistic versus relativistic coupled-cluster theory analyses
• Two-soliton molecule bouncing in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates under the effect of gravity
• Rotational predissociation of extremely weakly bound atom-molecule complexes produced by Feshbach resonance association
• Condensate wave function and elementary excitations of bosonic polar molecules: beyond the first Born approximation
• Repeated output coupling of ultracold Feshbach molecules from a Cs BEC
• Stability, Adiabaticity and Transfer efficiency in a nonlinear Λ-system
• Effect of the Atomic Dipole-Dipole Interaction on the Phase Diagrams of Field-Matter Interactions I: Variational procedure
• Trapping polar molecules by surface acoustic waves