Hund's paradox and the collisional stabilization of chiral molecules
Quantum Physics
2009-07-17 v3 Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Abstract
We identify the dominant collisional decoherence mechanism which serves to stabilize and super-select the configuration states of chiral molecules. A high-energy description of this effect is compared to the results of the exact molecular scattering problem, obtained by solving the coupled-channel equations. It allows to predict the experimental conditions for observing the collisional suppression of the tunneling dynamics between the left-handed and the right-handed configuration of D2S2 molecules.
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@article{arxiv.0811.2140,
title = {Hund's paradox and the collisional stabilization of chiral molecules},
author = {Johannes Trost and Klaus Hornberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2140},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure; v3:corresponds to published version