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Low temperatures and cold molecules

Book information

Publisher
Imperial College Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781848162099, 184816209X
LCC
QD515 .L69 2008
Open Library ID
OL23085230M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34329941 bytes)
Pages
578\578
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

New, unexpected and largely unexplored physical phenomena occur in systems cooled to very low temperatures. The background temperature in the universe is approximately 2.7 K, but much lower temperatures have now been obtained in the laboratory. This book reviews the progress in a number of related fields in which the common themes are low temperatures and molecules, not atoms. This book brings together, for the first time, the results of recent research in areas ranging from the chemistry of cold interstellar clouds (10 20 K), through laboratory studies of the spectroscopy and kinetics of ions, radicals and molecules, to studies of molecules in liquid helium droplets, to attempts to create molecular (as distinct from atomic) Bose Einstein condensates. The chapters fall into two parts, the first one dealing with low-temperature experiments and environments (ca. 1 20 K). In the context of this book, these chapters can be said to deal with relatively mature fields. The second part deals with very low temperatures and very cold molecules. Here, more emphasis is placed on the methods employed to generate samples of molecules at extremely low (

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