Robert Moszynski
Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland
State-of-the-art ab initio methods of quantum chemistry have found numerous applications in many areas of atomic, molecular, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. During the last decade they have been applied with success to interpret precision experiments on two-body and many-body processes in atomic gases in the ultracold regime. In this talk I will present recent examples of successful applications of the ab initio methods to describe two-body processes in atomic optical lattices leading to the formation of unusual chemical bonds and to observations of exotic optical transitions in diatomic molecules. I will also discuss the studies of ultracold chemistry enabled by photodissociation of diatomic strontium molecules, including the phenomena of resonant and nonresonant barrier tunneling, matter wave interference of reaction products, and forbidden reaction pathways.