Molecular Collisions: from Near-cold to Ultra-cold

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10470v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:16:24 GMT
• Title: Molecular Collisions: from Near-cold to Ultra-cold
• Authors: Yang Liu and Le Luo
• Abstract summary: Cold and ultracold molecules have provided cutting-edge experiments for studying collision physics. Recent explosion of interest in the molecular collisions has been sparked by dramatic progress of experimental capabilities. Authors review studies for exploring the nature of molecular collisions occurring at temperatures ranging from the Kelvin to the nanoKelvin regime.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the past two decades, the revolutionary technologies of creating cold and ultracold molecules have provided cutting-edge experiments for studying the fundamental phenomena of collision physics. To a large degree, the recent explosion of interest in the molecular collisions has been sparked by dramatic progress of experimental capabilities and theoretical methods, which permit molecular collisions to be explored deep in the quantum mechanical limit. Tremendous experimental advances in the field has already been achieved, and the authors, from an experimental perspective, provide a review of these studies for exploring the nature of molecular collisions occurring at temperatures ranging from the Kelvin to the nanoKelvin regime, as well as for applications of producing ultracold molecules.

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