Magnetic tuning of ultracold barrierless chemical reactions

Autor: Timur V. Tscherbul, Jacek Kłos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 2, Iss 1, p 013117 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013117
Popis: While attaining external field control of bimolecular chemical reactions has long been a coveted goal of physics and chemistry, the role of hyperfine interactions and dc magnetic fields in achieving such control has remained elusive. We develop an extended coupled-channel statistical theory of barrierless atom-diatom chemical reactions, and apply it to elucidate the effects of magnetic fields and hyperfine interactions on the ultracold chemical reaction Li(^{2}S_{1/2})+CaH(^{2}Σ^{+})→LiH(^{1}Σ^{+})+Ca(^{1}S_{0}) on a newly developed set of ab initio potential energy surfaces. We observe large field effects on the reaction cross sections, opening up the possibility of controlling ultracold barrierless chemical reactions by tuning selected hyperfine states of the reactants with an external magnetic field.
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