Ultracold chemistry as a testbed for few-body physics

T Karman, M Tomza, J Pérez-Ríos - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultracold atoms, molecules and ions provide a unique playground to explore chemistry at
ultracold temperatures. In this Review, we discuss what makes these systems particularly …

Theory of resonance and threshold effects in electron-molecule collisions: The projection-operator approach

W Domcke - Physics reports, 1991 - Elsevier
A review is given of the development of the projection-operator formalism of Feshbach
towards a comprehensive theory of resonance and threshold effects in electron-molecule …

[LIBRO][B] Airy functions and applications to physics

O Vallée, M Soares - 2010 - books.google.com
Addressed mainly to physicist and chemical physicist, this textbook is the result of a broad
compilation of current knowledge on analytical properties of Airy functions. In particular, the …

Observation of resonances in Penning ionization reactions at sub-kelvin temperatures in merged beams

AB Henson, S Gersten, Y Shagam, J Narevicius… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Experiments have lagged theory in exploring chemical interactions at temperatures so low
that translational degrees of freedom can no longer be treated classically. The difficulty has …

[LIBRO][B] Theory of slow atomic collisions

EE Nikitin, SY Umanskii - 2012 - books.google.com
The theory of atom-molecule collisions is one of the basic fields in chemi cal physics. Its
most challenging part-the dynamics of chemical reactions-is as yet unresolved, but is …

Theory of electronic transitions in slow atomic collisions

JB Delos - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1981 - APS
This review deals with quantitative descriptions of electronic transitions in atom-atom and
ion-atom collisions. In one type of description, the nuclear motion is treated classically or …

Electron spectroscopy using metastable atoms as probes for solid surfaces

Y Harada, S Masuda, H Ozaki - Chemical reviews, 1997 - ACS Publications
When a slow, rare gas, metastable atom, a longlived, electronically excited atom, is
introduced onto a solid surface, most of its excitation energy is used to eject electrons from …

Molecular-beam studies of Penning ionization

PE Siska - Reviews of modern physics, 1993 - APS
Molecular-beam experiments have exposed a new wealth of detail on the general reaction
A*+ B→ A+ B++ e− first suggested by Penning in 1927. The new capabilities not available to …

Quenching cross sections for electronic energy transfer reactions between metastable argon atoms and noble gases and small molecules

LG Piper, JE Velazco, DW Setser - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1973 - pubs.aip.org
Reaction rate constants for the quenching of electronic energy in metastable argon (3 P 0, 2)
by Kr, Xe, and a number of simple molecules have been measured. A hollow, cold‐cathode …

Desorption and trap** of argon at a 2H–W (100) surface and a test of the applicability of detailed balance to a nonequilibrium system

CT Rettner, EK Schweizer, CB Mullins - The Journal of Chemical …, 1989 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular beam techniques have been used to probe the dynamics of the trap** and
trap**–desorption of Ar at a hydrogen‐saturated W (100) surface. Trap** probabilities …