Cold reactive and nonreactive collisions of Li and Rb with C2− : Implications for hybrid-trap experiments
| Autor: | Jérôme Loreau, Jacques Liévin, Milaim Kas, Nathalie Vaeck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review A. 99 |
| ISSN: | 2469-9934 2469-9926 |
| Popis: | We present a theoretical investigation of cold reactive and non-reactive collisions of Li and Rb atoms with C$_{2}^{-}$. The potential energy surfaces for the singlet and triplet states of the Li--C$_{2}^{-}$ and Rb--C$_{2}^{-}$ systems have been obtained using the CASSCF/ic-MRCI+Q approach with extended basis sets. The potential energy surfaces are then used to investigate the associative detachment reaction and to calculate rotationally inelastic cross sections by means of the close-coupling method. The effect of the core correlation on the potential energy surfaces is discussed and we estimate the error on the collisional cross sections induced by freezing the $1s$ orbitals of the carbon atoms. The results are compared to those obtained for the Rb-OH$^{-}$ system and the applications for hybrid trap experiments are explored. Furthermore, we discuss the possibility to perform Doppler thermometry on the C$_{2}^{-}$ anion and investigate the collision process involving excited states. The implications for sympathetic cooling experiments are also discussed. |
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