The Willitsch Group - Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions
Welcome to the Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions group at the University of Basel led by Prof. Stefan Willitsch. Our research is concerned with the preparation and control of cold molecules and molecular ions and their applications in both chemistry and physics. On this website, you can find information about our group, our research, our teaching and opportunities to join us.
Recent news

Kaveh’s and Ziv’s recent paper has been designated a HOT article in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
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Our group
Research
Teaching
Course materials for HS20 on ADAM:
Physikalische Chemie II - Einführung in die Quantentheorie
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Recent publications
K. Najafian, Z. Meir and S. Willitsch,
”From megahertz to terahertz qubits encoded in molecular ions: theoretical analysis of dipole-forbidden spectroscopic transitions in N2+”
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22 (2020), 23083 (arxiv 2007.11097)
U. Rivero, H. T. Turan, M. Meuwly and S. Willitsch,
”Reactive atomistic simulations of Diels-Alder-type reactions: Conformational and dynamic effects in the polar cycloaddition of 2,3-dibromobutadiene radical ions with maleic anhydride”
Mol. Phys. (2020), e1825852 (arXiv 2010.00464)
J. Wang, A. Kilaj, L. He, K. Dlugolecki, S. Willitsch and J. Küpper,
”Spatial separation of the conformers of methyl vinyl ketone”
J. Phys. Chem. A 124 (2020), 8341 (arxiv 2006.16299)
K. Najafian, Z. Meir, M. Sinhal and S. Willitsch,
"Identification of molecular quantum states using phase-sensitive forces”
Nat. Commun. 11 (2020), 4470 (arXiv 2004.05306)