https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00151-x
Editorial: Quo vadis, cold molecules?
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Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Bâtiment 505, Campus d'Orsay,
91405 Orsay Cedex, France
We give a snapshot of the rapidly developing field of ultracold polar molecules and walk the reader through the papers appearing in this Topical Issue.
PACS: 33. – Molecular properties and interactions with photons / 33.80.Ps – Optical cooling of molecules; trapping / 34. – Atomic and molecular collision processes and interactions / 39. – Instrumentation and techniques for atomic and molecular physics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004
