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The tunneling reaction H$_2$ + D$^-$ $\rightarrow$ HD + H$^-$ was studied in a recent experimental work at low temperatures (10, 19, and 23~K) by Endres {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 95}, 022706 (2017). An upper limit of the rate…
To study the temperature in a gas subjected to electromagnetic radiations, one may use the Radiative Transfer equations coupled with the Navier-Stokes equations. The problem has 7 dimensions; however with minimal simplifications it is…
We propose an adiabatic method for optimal phonon temperature estimation using trapped ions which can be operated beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. The quantum sensing technique relies on a time-dependent red-sideband transition of phonon…
Time-dependent wave packet calculations for the reaction H+HCl and its isotopic reactions are carried out on the potential energy surface (PES) of Bian and Werner (BW2) [Bian, W.; Werner, H. -J., J. Chem. Phys. 2000, 112, 220]. Reaction…
The escape rate \Gamma of the large-spin model described by the Hamiltonian H = -DS_z^2 - H_zS_z - H_xS_x is investigated with the help of the mapping onto a particle moving in a double-well potential U(x). The transition-state method…
The rate of the nuclear reaction $^3He+\mu^- \to ^3H+\gamma+\nu_{\mu}$ has been calculated using both the elementary particle model (EPM) approach and the impulse approximation (IA) approach. Using the EPM approach, the exclusive…
Ring-polymer instanton theory has been developed to simulate the quantum dynamics of molecular systems at low temperatures. Chemical reaction rates can be obtained by locating the dominant tunneling pathway and analyzing fluctuations around…
In 1954, Vogt and Wannier (Phys. Rev. 95, 1190) predicted that the capture rate of a polarizable neutral atom or molecule by an ion should increase by a factor of two compared to the classical Langevin rate as the collision energy…
Aim: We present an improved database of temperature dependent rate coefficients for rotational state-to-state transitions in H$_{2}$O + H$_{2}$O collisions. The database includes 231 transitions between the lower $para$- and 210 transitions…
We have computed the cross sections of the mutual neutralization reaction between I$^{+}$ and I$^{-}$ for a collision energy varying from 0.001 eV to 50 eV. These cross sections were obtained using the adiabatic potential energy curves of…
Canonical instanton theory is known to overestimate the rate constant close to a system-dependent crossover temperature and is inapplicable above that temperature. We compare the accuracy of the reaction rate constants calculated using…
We tabulate spontaneous emission rates for all possible 811 electric-dipole-allowed transitions between the 75 lowest-energy states of Ca I. These involve the $4sns$ ($n=4-8$), $4snp$ ($n=4-7$), $4snd$ ($n=3-6$), $4snf$ ($n=4-6$), $4p^2$,…
The relativistic configuration interaction valence bond method has been used to calculate permanent and transition electric dipole moments of the KRb heteronuclear molecule as a function of internuclear separation. The permanent dipole…
Recent works have shown that the spectroscopic access to highly-excited states provides enough information to characterize transition states in isomerization reactions. Here, we show that the transition state of the bond breaking HCN-HNC…
The theory of summation of electromagnetic line transitions is used to tabulate the Taylor expansion of the refractive index of humid air over the basic independent parameters (temperature, pressure, humidity, wavelength) in five separate…
The rate coefficients of various isotopic variations of the H2+ + H2 and H3+ + H2 reactions in the 10-250 K temperature range were measured using a cryogenic 22 pole radio frequency ion trap. The processes involving diatomic ions were found…
We calculate the suppression in the rate at which two baryons in a nucleus (viz., nucleons or $\Lambda$'s) convert to an H dibaryon, using an Isgur-Karl wavefunction for quarks in the baryons and H, and a Bethe-Goldstone wavefunction for…
Hagedorn states (HS) are a tool to model the hadronization process which occurs in the phase transition region between the quark gluon plasma (QGP) and the hadron resonance gas (HRG). These states are believed to appear near the Hagedorn…
Temperature dependence of the thermal rate constants and kinetic isotope effects (KIE) of the CN + C2H6 gas-phase hydrogen abstraction reaction was theoretically determined within the 25-1000 K temperature range, i.e., from ultra-low to…
We present a lattice QCD determination of masses of the conjectured H-dibaryon $m_H$ at nine different temperatures $T/T_c =0.24, 0.63, 0.76, 0.84, 0.95, 1.09, 1.27, 1.52, 1.90$. In the meantime, the masses of baryon $N$, $\Sigma$, $\Xi$…