Ultracold photoassociation spectroscopy: Long-range molecules and atomic scattering

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 483-535

  Jones, Kevin M ^a,b   Tiesinga, Eite ^b   Lett, Paul D ^b   Julienne, Paul S ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE;

EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; FESHBACH RESONANCES; PHOTOASSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRACOLD TEMPERATURES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33646888006     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.78.483     Document Type: Article

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