Researchers create ultracold triatomic gas of high phase-space density

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Pan Jianwei and Prof. Zhao Bo from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), used adiabatic magneto-association to create an ultracold gas of triatomic molecules with high phase-space density from a degenerate mixture of 23Na40K molecules and 40K atoms for the first time. This work was published in Science.