Interactions in Ultracold Gases: From Atoms to Molecules

The Quest for BEC (P. van der Straten & H. Metcalf).

Quantum Collisions (J. Weiner).

Introduction to Bose-Einstein Condensation (K. Bongs & K. Sengstock).

Cold Molecules (E. Tiemann).

Tutorial on Experimental Physics of Ultracold Gases (A. Mosk).

II Topical Reports.

Two-Dimensional Gas of Cesium Atoms Confined by Evanescent Waves (M. Hammes, et al.).

Ultracold Rydberg Gases and Plasmas (P. Gould, et al.).

Interactions in Ultracold Atomic Mixtures (G. Modugno & G. Roati).

Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices (I. Bloch, et al.).

Atom-Molecule Coherence in ⁸⁵ Rb BEC (N. Claussen, et al.).

Formation and Trapping of Cold Molecules (D. Comparat, et al.).

Deceleration and Trapping of Polar Molecules (G. Meijer).

Physics with Cold Molecular Ions (D. Zajfman, et al.).

Cold Molecules as a Laboratory for Particle Physics (B. Sauer, et al.).

III Developments.

A. Interactions in Trapped Atomic Gases.

B. Bose-Einstein Condensation and Fermi Degeneracy.

C. Cold Molecules.

D. Manipulation of Molecules.

List of Contributors.

Index.