COLD AND ULTRACOLD COLLISIONS IN QUANTUM MICROSCOPIC AND MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS
CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO COLD COLLISION THEORY BASIC CONCEPTS OF SCATTERING THEORY QUANTUM PROPERTIES AS ENERGY APPROACHES ZERO RELATIONS BETWEEN PHASE SHIFT, SCATTERING LENGTH, AND BOUND STATES SCATTERING LENGTH IN A SQUARE-WELL POTENTIAL COLLISIONS IN A LIGHT ?ELD EXPERIMENTAL METHODS OF COLD COLLISIONS ATOM TRAPS LIGHT FORCES THE MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP (MOT) DARK SPOT MOT THE FAR-OFF RESONANCE TRAP (FORT) ATOM BEAMS INTRODUCTION VELOCITY GROUP SELECTION BRIGHT SLOW BEAMS INELASTIC EXOERGIC COLLISIONS IN MOTS EXCITED-STATE TRAP LOSS THEORY EARLY QUASISTATIC MODELS THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO EXCITED-STATE TRAP LOSS METHOD OF COMPLEX POTENTIALS TWO-PHOTON DISTORTED WAVE THEORY ASSESSMENT OF THEORETICAL APPROACHES EXCITED-STATE TRAP-LOSS MEASUREMENTS CESIUM TRAP LOSS RUBIDIUM TRAP LOSS LITHIUM TRAP LOSS POTASSIUM TRAP LOSS SODIUM–POTASSIUM MIXED-SPECIES TRAP LOSS SODIUM–RUBIDIUM MIXED-SPECIES TRAP LOSS OTHER MIXED-ALKALI LOSS MEASUREMENTS RARE-GAS METASTABLE LOSS IN MOTS AND OPTICAL LATTICES GROUND-STATE TRAP-LOSS COLLISIONS LOW-INTENSITY TRAP LOSS REVISITED PHOTOASSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY PHOTOASSOCIATION AT AMBIENT AND COLD TEMPERATURES ASSOCIATIVE AND PHOTOASSOCIATIVE IONIZATION PAI AT SMALL DETUNING PAI AND MOLECULAR HYPER?NE STRUCTURE TWO-COLOR PAI PHOTOASSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY IN MOTS AND FORTS SODIUM RUBIDIUM LITHIUM POTASSIUM PHOTOASSOCIATIVE IONIZATION IN ATOM BEAMS ATOMIC LIFETIMES FROM PHOTOASSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY DETERMINATION OF THE SCATTERING LENGTH POTASSIUM-RUBIDIUM LITHIUM–HYDROGEN MAGNESIUM HELIUM OPTICAL SHIELDING AND SUPPRESSION OPTICAL SUPPRESSION OF TRAP LOSS OPTICAL SHIELDING AND SUPPRESSION IN PHOTOASSOCIATIVE IONIZATION OPTICAL SHIELDING IN XENON AND KRYPTON COLLISIONAL IONIZATION OPTICAL SHIELDING IN RB COLLISIONS THEORIES OF OPTICAL SHIELDING GROUND-STATE COLLISIONS EARLY WORK BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION COLLISIONAL ASPECTS OF BEC FURTHER COMMENTS ON THE SCATTERING LENGTH DESIGNER CONDENSATES USING FESHBACH RESONANCES NONMAGNETIC MODULATION OF THE SCATTERING LENGTH CONDENSATES IN ALL-OPTICAL TRAPS COLD MOLECULE FORMATION DIRECT METHODS OF COOLING OR DECELERATING MOLECULES COLD MOLECULES FROM COLD ATOMS: PHOTOASSOCIATION MOLECULAR BECS FROM FESHBACH RESONANCES COLLISIONS AND QUANTUM COMPUTATION FUTURE DIRECTIONS REFERENCES