Stereodynamical Control of a Quantum Scattering Resonance in Cold Molecular Collisions

Authors

Pablo G. Jambrina, Universidad de SalamancaFollow
James F.E. Croft, University of OtagoFollow
Hua Guo, University of New MexicoFollow
Mark Brouard, University of OxfordFollow
Balakrishnan Naduvalath, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
F. Javier Aoiz, Universidad ComplutenseFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-26-2019

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Publisher

American Physical Society

Volume

123

Issue

4

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

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-H2, the process is dominated by a single L=2 partial wave resonance centered around 0.1 K. Here, we show that this resonance can be switched on or off simply by appropriate alignment of the HD rotational angular momentum relative to the initial velocity vector, thereby enabling complete control of the collision outcome.

Disciplines

Physical Chemistry | Quantum Physics

File Format

pdf

File Size

809 KB

Language

English

Repository Citation

Jambrina, P. G., Croft, J. F., Guo, H., Brouard, M., Naduvalath, B., Aoiz, F. J. (2019). Stereodynamical Control of a Quantum Scattering Resonance in Cold Molecular Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 123(4), 1-6. American Physical Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.043401