A team of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in trapping individual polyatomic molecules in optical tweezer ...

The shapes of simple polyatomic molecules such as carbon dioxide and methane are characterized by a specific symmetry ...

His group studies fundamental collisional processes in atoms and molecules and develop tools to achieve full quantum control over increasingly complex molecular systems. He is also currently working ...

as it is these molecules which undergo chemical reaction. Highly excited vibrational states of polyatomic molecules are prepared and studied by combining laser spectroscopy, molecular beam techniques ...

One of the significant breakthroughs in this field is the successful magneto-optical trapping (MOT) and sub-Doppler cooling of polyatomic molecules, specifically calcium monohydroxide (CaOH).