Geometric Phase Effects in the Ultracold H + H2 Reaction
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
145
Issue
16
Abstract
The H3 system has served as a prototype for geometric phase (GP) effects in bimolecular chemical reactions for over three decades. Despite a large number of theoretical and experimental efforts, no conclusive evidence of GP effects in the integral cross section or reaction rate has been presented until recently [B. Kendrick et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153201 (2015)]. Here we report a more detailed account of GP effects in the H + H2(v = 4, j = 0) → H + H2(v′, j′) (para-para) reaction rate coefficients for temperatures between 1 μK (8.6 × 10-11 eV) and 100 K (8.6 × 10-3 eV). The GP effect is found to persist in both vibrationally resolved and total rate coefficients for collision energies up to about 10 K. The GP effect also appears in rotationally resolved differential cross sections leading to a very different oscillatory structure in both energy and scattering angle. It is shown to suppress a prominent shape resonance near 1 K and enhance a shape resonance near 8 K, providing new experimentally verifiable signatures of the GP effect in the fundamental hydrogen exchange reaction. The GP effect in the D + D2 and T + T2 reactions is also examined in the ultracold limit and its sensitivity to the potential energy surface is explored. © 2016 Author(s).
Language
English
Repository Citation
Kendrick, B. K.,
Hazra, J.,
Naduvalath, B.
(2016).
Geometric Phase Effects in the Ultracold H + H2 Reaction.
Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(16),
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4966037