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Reaction kinetics of ultracold molecule-molecule collisions

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  • Daniel K. Hoffmann

    (Universität Ulm)

  • Thomas Paintner

    (Universität Ulm)

  • Wolfgang Limmer

    (Universität Ulm)

  • Dmitry S. Petrov

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Johannes Hecker Denschlag

    (Universität Ulm)

Abstract

Studying chemical reactions on a state-to-state level tests and improves our fundamental understanding of chemical processes. For such investigations it is convenient to make use of ultracold atomic and molecular reactants as they can be prepared in well defined internal and external quantum states. Here, we investigate a single-channel reaction of two Li2-Feshbach molecules where one of the molecules dissociates into two atoms 2AB ⇒ AB + A + B. The process is a prototype for a class of four-body collisions where two reactants produce three product particles. We measure the collisional dissociation rate constant of this process as a function of collision energy/temperature and scattering length. We confirm an Arrhenius-law dependence on the collision energy, an a4 power-law dependence on the scattering length a and determine a universal four body reaction constant.

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  • Daniel K. Hoffmann & Thomas Paintner & Wolfgang Limmer & Dmitry S. Petrov & Johannes Hecker Denschlag, 2018. "Reaction kinetics of ultracold molecule-molecule collisions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-6, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-07576-1
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07576-1
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