Glory scattering in deeply inelastic molecular collisions

M Besemer, G Tang, Z Gao, A van der Avoird… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
For molecular collisions, the deflection of a molecule's trajectory provides one of the most
sensitive probes of the interaction potential and there are general rules of thumb that relate …

Role of Low Energy Resonances in the Stereodynamics of Cold He + D2 Collisions

PG Jambrina, M Morita, JFE Croft, FJ Aoiz… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent experiments using the Stark-induced adiabatic Raman passage technique, Zhou et
al.(J. Chem. Phys. 2021, 154, 104309; Science 2021, 374, 960–964) measured the …

Stereodynamical Control of Cold Collisions between Two Aligned Molecules

PG Jambrina, JFE Croft, J Zuo, H Guo… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
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 …

Steric effects and quantum interference in the inelastic scattering of NO (X)+ Ar

B Nichols, H Chadwick, SDS Gordon, CJ Eyles… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Rotationally inelastic collisions of NO (X) with Ar are investigated in unprecedented detail
using state-to-state, crossed molecular beam experiments. The NO (X) molecules are …

Stereodynamical control of a quantum scattering resonance in cold molecular collisions

PG Jambrina, JFE Croft, H Guo, M Brouard… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
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-H 2, the …

Differential Cross Sections for Pair-Correlated Rotational Energy Transfer in NO(A2Σ+) + N2, CO, and O2: Signatures of Quenching Dynamics

TFM Luxford, TR Sharples, M Fournier… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A crossed molecular beam, velocity-map ion-imaging apparatus has been used to
determine differential cross sections (DCSs), as a function of collider final internal energy, for …

Orientation and Alignment dynamics of polar molecule driven by shaped laser pulses

VV Nautiyal, S Devi, A Tyagi, B Vidhani, A Maan… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the theoretical status of intense laser induced orientation and alignment-a field of
study which lies at the interface of intense laser physics and chemical dynamics and having …

Side-impact collisions of Ar with NO

CG Heid, V Walpole, M Brouard, PG Jambrina… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the realm of molecular collision dynamics, stereochemistry refers to the dependence of
the collision outcome on the mutual orientation of the colliding partners. This may involve …

Li+ HF and Li+ HCl Reactions Revisited I: QCT Calculations and Simulation of Experimental Results

M Menéndez, E Garcia, M Lara… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The Li+ HF and Li+ HCl reactions share some common features. They have the same
kinematics, relatively small barrier heights, bent transition states, and are both exothermic …

Non-intuitive rotational reorientation in collisions of NO(A 2Σ+) with Ne from direct measurement of a four-vector correlation

TR Sharples, JG Leng, TFM Luxford, KG McKendrick… - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Stereodynamic descriptions of molecular collisions concern the angular correlations that
exist between vector properties of the motion of the participating species, including their …