Perspective: Ultracold molecules and the dawn of cold controlled chemistry

N Balakrishnan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Ultracold molecules offer unprecedented opportunities for the controlled interrogation of
molecular events, including chemical reactivity in the ultimate quantum regime. The …

Molecular collisions: From near-cold to ultra-cold

Y Liu, L Luo - Frontiers of Physics, 2021 - Springer
In the past two decades, the revolutionary technologies of creating cold and ultracold
molecules have provided cutting-edge experiments for studying the fundamental …

Advances and new challenges to bimolecular reaction dynamics theory

J Li, B Zhao, D Xie, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dynamics of bimolecular reactions in the gas phase are of foundational importance in
combustion, atmospheric chemistry, interstellar chemistry, and plasma chemistry. These …

Molecular hydrogen interacts more strongly when rotationally excited at low temperatures leading to faster reactions

Y Shagam, A Klein, W Skomorowski, R Yun… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The role of internal molecular degrees of freedom, such as rotation, has scarcely been
explored experimentally in low-energy collisions despite their significance to cold and …

Non-adiabatic quantum interference in the ultracold Li+ LiNa→ Li 2+ Na reaction

BK Kendrick, H Li, M Li, S Kotochigova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronically non-adiabatic effects play an important role in many chemical reactions.
However, how these effects manifest in cold and ultracold chemistry remains largely …

Feshbach Resonances in -Wave Three-Body Recombination within Fermi-Fermi Mixtures of Open-Shell and Closed-Shell Atoms

A Green, H Li, JH See Toh, X Tang, KC McCormick… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We report on the observation of magnetic Feshbach resonances in a Fermi-Fermi mixture of
ultracold atoms with extreme mass imbalance and on their unique p-wave dominated three …

The geometric phase controls ultracold chemistry

BK Kendrick, J Hazra, N Balakrishnan - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
The geometric phase is shown to control the outcome of an ultracold chemical reaction. The
control is a direct consequence of the sign change on the interference term between two …

Universality and chaoticity in ultracold K+ KRb chemical reactions

JFE Croft, C Makrides, M Li, A Petrov… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A fundamental question in the study of chemical reactions is how reactions proceed at a
collision energy close to absolute zero. This question is no longer hypothetical: quantum …

Geometric phase appears in the ultracold hydrogen exchange reaction

BK Kendrick, J Hazra, N Balakrishnan - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Quantum reactive scattering calculations for the hydrogen exchange reaction H+ H 2 (v= 4,
j= 0)→ H+ H 2 (v′, j′) and its isotopic analogues are reported for ultracold collision …

[HTML][HTML] Non-adiabatic quantum reactive scattering in hyperspherical coordinates

BK Kendrick - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A new electronically non-adiabatic quantum reactive scattering methodology is presented
based on a time-independent coupled channel formalism and the adiabatically adjusting …