Determining the nature of quantum resonances by probing elastic and reactive scattering in cold collisions

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العنوان: Determining the nature of quantum resonances by probing elastic and reactive scattering in cold collisions
المؤلفون: Paliwal, Prerna, Deb, Nabanita, Reich, Daniel M., van der Avoird, Ad, Koch, Christiane P., Narevicius, Edvardas
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Chemical Physics
الوصف: Scattering resonances play a central role in collision processes in physics and chemistry. They help building an intuitive understanding of the collision dynamics due to the spatial localization of the scattering wavefunctions. For resonances that are localized in the reaction region, located at short separation behind the centrifugal barrier, sharp peaks in the reaction rates are the characteristic signature, observed recently with state-of-the-art experiments in low energy collisions. If, however, the localization occurs outside of the reaction region, mostly the elastic scattering is modified. This may occur due to above barrier resonances, the quantum analogue of classical orbiting. By probing both elastic and inelastic scattering of metastable helium with deuterium molecules in merged beam experiments, we differentiate between the nature of quantum resonances -- tunneling vs above barrier -- and corroborate our findings by calculating the corresponding scattering wavefunctions.
Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-00578-x
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10750
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2002.10750
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1038/s41557-020-00578-x