Product state control of bi-alkali chemical reactions
Atomic Physics
2015-05-18 v1
Abstract
We consider ultracold, chemically reactive scattering collisions of the diatomic molecules KRb. When two such molecules collide in an ultracold gas, we find that they are energetically forbidden from reacting to form the trimer species KRb or RbK, hence can only react via the bond-swapping reaction 2KRb K + Rb. Moreover, the tiny energy released in this reaction can in principle be set to zero by applying electric or microwave fields, implying a means of controlling the available reaction channels in a chemical reaction.
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@article{arxiv.1004.3317,
title = {Product state control of bi-alkali chemical reactions},
author = {Edmund R. Meyer and John L. Bohn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3317},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages double column, 2 figures, 2 tables