Prospects for cooling and trapping rotationally hot molecules

R. C. Forrey

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.66.023411

Prospects for cooling and trapping rotationally hot molecules

R. C. Forrey

Division of Science (Berks)

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Abstract

Detailed quantum-mechanical calculations were performed for cold collisions of helium atoms with hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium molecules. The rotational distributions of the total quenching rate coefficients showed a characteristic behavior that is independent of the rotational inertia of the molecule. The QR and dissociation rotational levels both increased with increasing inertia, but the characteristic behavior of the distributions was unaffected.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	023411
Pages (from-to)	023411/1-023411/7
Journal	Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume	66
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.023411
State	Published - Aug 2002

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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