An Introduction to Cold and Ultracold Chemistry

This book provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an overview of the fundamentals of cold and ultracold chemistry. Beginning with definitions of what cold and ultracold temperatures mean in chemistry, the book then takes the student through the essentials of scattering theory (classical and quantum mechanical), light-matter interaction, reaction dynamics and Rydberg physics. The author aims to show the reader the richness of the topic while motivating students to understand the fundamentals of these intriguing reactions and underlying connecting relationships. Including material which was previously only found in specialized review articles, this book provides students working in the fields of ultracold gases, chemical physics and physical chemistry with the tools they need to immerse themselves in the realm of cold and ultracold chemistry. This book opens up the exciting chemical laws which govern chemistry at low temperatures to the next generation of researchers.

- The Realm of Cold and Ultracold. - Quantum Scattering Theory. - Ultracold Gases. - Cooling and Trapping of Molecules. - Ultracold Molecular Collisions. - Three-Body Collisions at Ultracold Temperatures: An Effective Field Theory Approach. - Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Ultralong-Range Rydberg Molecules. - Rydberg-Neutral Ultracold Chemical Reactions. - Hybrid Atom Ion Systems. - Few-Body Processes Involving Ions and Neutrals at Cold Temperatures. - Cold Chemical Reactions Between Molecular Ions and Neutral Atoms. - Ultracold Physics and the Quest of New Physics.