Faraday Discussion 142: Cold and Ultracold Molecules (FD142)
Venue: Durham University
Location: Durham, United Kingdom
Event Date/Time: Apr 15, 2009 | End Date/Time: Apr 17, 2009 |
Description
The new capabilities open up many exciting prospects, including:
The study of collision processes in unprecedented detail using cooled or velocity-controlled species
The use of cold molecules in high-precision measurement to observe fundamentally important quantities
The production of quantum gases of dipolar molecules, which would exhibit many new properties
The use of cold molecules as qubits in quantum computing
Controlled ultracold chemistry, in which controlled chemical changes are achieved coherently for large samples using external fields.