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Ultracold Chemistry and its Reaction Kinetics

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2 Quantum Gases Chemical Physics

Abstract

We study the reaction kinetics of chemical processes occurring in the ultracold regime and systematically investigate their dynamics. Quantum entanglement is found to play a key role in driving an ultracold reaction towards a dynamical equilibrium. In case of multiple concurrent reactions Hamiltonian chaos dominates the phase space dynamics in the mean field approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1405.6811,
  title  = {Ultracold Chemistry and its Reaction Kinetics},
  author = {Florian Richter and Daniel Becker and Cédric Bény and Torben A. Schulze and Silke Ospelkaus and Tobias J. Osborne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6811},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures