Editorial: Quo vadis, cold molecules? J. DoyleB. FriedrichF. Masnou-Seeuws Editorial Pages: 149 - 164
The photoassociative spectroscopy, photoassociative molecule formation, and trapping of ultracold \(\mathsf{^{39}K^{85}Rb}\) D. WangJ. QiW. C. Stwalley OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 177
Prospects for production of ultracold \(\mathsf{X^{1}\Sigma^{ + }}\) RbCs molecules T. BergemanA. J. KermanD. DeMille OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 188
Photoassociative formation of ultracold polar KRb molecules S. KotochigovaE. TiesingaP. S. Julienne OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 194
Prospects for the formation of ultracold ground state polar molecules from mixed alkali atom pairs S. AziziM. AymarO. Dulieu OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 203
Spectroscopic studies of NaCs for the ground state asymptote of Na + Cs pairs O. DocenkoM. TamanisE. Tiemann OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 211
Formation of ultracold polar molecules via Raman excitation E. Taylor-JuarrosR. CôtéK. Kirby OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 219
Efficient conversion of ultracold Feshbach-resonance-related polar molecules into ultracold ground state (X \(\mathsf{^{1}\Sigma^ + }\) \(\mathsf{v = 0}\), \(\mathsf{J = 0}\)) molecules W. C. Stwalley OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 225
Photoassociation experiments with ultracold metastable helium J. KimU. D. RapolM. Leduc OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 237
Optimizing the photoassociation of cold atoms by use of chirped laser pulses E. Luc-KoenigM. VatasescuF. Masnou-Seeuws OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 262
Prospects for measurement and control of the scattering length of metastable helium using photoassociation techniques J. C. J. KoelemeijM. Leduc OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 271
New directions in degenerate dipolar molecules via collective association M. MackieO. DannenbergJ. Javanainen OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 282
Formation of cold bialkali dimers on helium nanodroplets M. MudrichO. BünermannM. Weidemüller OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 299
Feshbach resonances in \(\mathsf{^{23}}\)Na- \(\mathsf{^{87}}\)Rb M. BhattacharyaL. O. BaksmatyN. P. Bigelow OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 306
Buffer-gas cooling of NH via the beam loaded buffer-gas method D. EgorovW. C. CampbellJ. M. Doyle OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 311
A quasi-analytic model of a linear Stark accelerator/decelerator for polar molecules B. Friedrich OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 336
Decelerated molecular beams for high-resolution spectroscopy J. van VeldhovenJ. KüpperG. Meijer OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 349
Efficient Stark deceleration of cold polar molecules Eric R. HudsonJ. R. BochinskiJun Ye OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 358
Feasibility of a storage ring for polar molecules in strong-field-seeking states H. NishimuraG. LambertsonH. Gould OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 364
Slow ammonia molecules in an electrostatic quadrupole guide T. JunglenT. RiegerG. Rempe OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 373
Microwave traps for cold polar molecules D. DeMilleD. R. GlennJ. Petricka OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 384
Formation of \(\mathsf{NO(j' = 7.5)}\) molecules with sub-kelvin translational energy via molecular beam collisions with argon using the technique of molecular cooling by inelastic collisional energy-transfer M. S. ElioffJ. J. ValentiniD. W. Chandler OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 393
Photo-dissociation of Cold MgH\(\mathsf{^ + }\) ions A. BertelsenI. S. VogeliusM. Drewsen OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 408
Emission spectrum for polar super rotors in a cold buffer gas R. C. Forrey OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 415
Chemical reactivity of ultracold polar molecules: investigation of \({\rm H} + {\rm HCl}\) and \({\rm H} + {\rm DCl}\) collisions P. F. WeckN. Balakrishnan OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 421
Features of chemical reactions at vanishing kinetic energy: the presence of internally “hot” reagents E. BodoF. A. Gianturco OriginalPaper Pages: 423 - 427
Interactions of transition metal atoms with He J. KłosM. F. RodeM. M. Szcześniak OriginalPaper Pages: 429 - 437
Instabilities and the roton spectrum of a quasi-1D Bose-Einstein condensed gas with dipole-dipole interactions S. GiovanazziD. H. J. O’Dell OriginalPaper Pages: 439 - 445