Cold Chemistry

Andreas Osterwalder is a Senior Scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, where he leads a team working on developing a merged beam technique to study neutral chemical reactions below 1K. Olivier Dulieu is Research Director at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, France. His research interests include the theory of structure and dynamics of cold and ultracold neutral and ionic molecules, quantum chemistry, molecular spectroscopy and field-assisted dynamics.

Low temperature chemistry in uniform supersonic flows;

Cold molecular collisions: quantum scattering calculations and their relevance in astrophysical applications;

Low energy scattering in crossed molecular beams;

Long-range interactions between ultracold atoms and molecules;

Interactions of Atoms and Molecules in Cold Chemistry;

Effects of External Magnetic Fields on Cold Molecular Collisions;

Role of resonances at ultracold temperatures;

Experiments with Large Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets;

Molecular impurities interacting with a many-particle environment: from ultracold gases to helium nanodroplets;

Cold ion chemistry;

Controlling a quantum gas of polar molecules in an optical lattice;

Ultracold collisions of molecules;

Coherent Control of Cold Collisions