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Quantum control of molecular collision dynamics is an exciting emerging area of cold collisions. Co-expansion of collision partners in a supersonic molecular beam combined with precise control of their quantum states and…
Cold collisions of light molecules are often dominated by a single partial wave resonance. For the rotational quenching of HD(v=1,j=2) by collisions with ground state para-H2, the process is dominated by a single L=2 partial wave resonance…
Stereodynamic control of resonant molecular collisions has emerged as a new frontier in cold molecule research. Recent experimental studies have focused on weakly interacting molecular systems such as HD collisions with H$_2$, D$_2$ and He.…
Quantum calculations are reported for the stereodynamic control of the H + D$_{2}\longleftrightarrow$ D + HD chemical reaction in the energy range of 1-50 K. Stereodynamic control is achieved by a formalism similar to that reported by…
Measuring inelastic rates with partial wave resolution requires temperatures close to a Kelvin or below, even for the lightest molecule. In a recent experiment Perreault et al. [1] studied collisional relaxation of excited HD molecules in…
Following upon our recent work on vector correlations in the Ar-NO collisions [PCCP 12, 1038 (2010)], we compare model results with close-coupling calculations for a range of channels and collision energies for the He-NO system. The…
We use numerically exact quantum dynamics calculations to demonstrate universal stereoselectivity of cold collisions of $^2\Pi$ molecules with $^1$S-state atoms in an external electric field. We show that cold collisions of OH molecules in…
Full-dimensional quantum scattering calculations are reported for ro-vibrational transitions in HD+HD collisions using a highly accurate interaction potential for the H$_2$-H$_2$ system. Several near-resonant ro-vibrational transitions are…
Resonant scattering of optically state-prepared and aligned molecules in the cold regime allows the most detailed interrogation and control of bimolecular collisions. This technique has recently been applied to collisions of two aligned…
A close coupling quantum-mechanical calculation is performed for rotational energy transfer in a HD+HD collision at very low energy, down to the ultracold temperatures: $T \sim 10^{-8}$ K. A global six-dimensional H$_2$-H$_2$ potential…
The H$_2$+H$_2$ system has long been considered as a benchmark system for ro-vibrational energy transfer in bimolecular collisions. However, most studies thus far have focused on collisions involving H$_2$ molecules in the ground…
A scattering resonance is one of the most striking quantum effects in low-temperature molecular collisions. Predicted decades ago theoretically, they have only been resolved experimentally for systems involving at most four atoms. Extension…
Cross sections resulting from scattering that proceeds via an intermediate resonance are shown to be exceptionally controllable using a coherent superposition of only two intial states. Full quantum computations on F+HD(v=0;j=0,1) --> H+DF,…
Quantum scattering calculations are reported for the H+HCl(v,j=0) and H+DCl(v,j=0) collisions for vibrational levels v=0-2 of the diatoms. Calculations were performed for incident kinetic energies in the range 10-7 to 10-1 eV, for total…
When hydrogen molecules collide with a surface, they can either scatter away from the surface or stick to the surface through a dissociation reaction which leaves two H atoms adsorbed on the surface. The relative probabilities of these two…
The relative orientation of colliding molecules plays a key role in determining the rates of chemical processes. Here we examine in detail a prototypical example: rotational quenching of HD in cold collisions with H2. We show that the…
We consider the coherent control of ultracold molecule-molecule scattering, impacted by a dense set of rovibrational resonances. To characterize the resonance spectrum, a rudimentary model based on multichannel quantum defect theory has…
Coherent control of atomic and molecular scattering relies on the preparation of colliding particles in superpositions of internal states, establishing interfering pathways that can be used to tune the outcome of a scattering process.…
We study the spin-dependent stereodynamics of the S + H2 -> SH + H reaction using full-dimensional quantum dynamics calculations with zero total nuclear angular momentum along the triplet 3A" states and singlet 1A' states. We find that the…
We develop an analytic model of vector correlations in rotationally inelastic atom-diatom collisions and test it against the much examined Ar--NO ($\mathbf X^2 \Pi$) system. Based on the Fraunhofer scattering of matter waves, the model…