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Eyles, C. J., Floss, J., Averbukh, I. S. h., & Leibscher, M. (2015). Atom-diatom scattering dynamics of spinning molecules. The Journal of chemical physics, 142(2), 024311. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905251
Eyles, C J, et al. "Atom-diatom scattering dynamics of spinning molecules." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 142,2 (2015): 024311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905251
Eyles CJ, Floss J, Averbukh ISh, Leibscher M. Atom-diatom scattering dynamics of spinning molecules. J Chem Phys. 2015 Jan 14;142(2):024311. doi: 10.1063/1.4905251. PMID: 25591357.
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J Chem Phys. 2015 Jan 14;142(2):024311. doi: 10.1063/1.4905251.

Atom-diatom scattering dynamics of spinning molecules.

The Journal of chemical physics

C J Eyles, J Floss, I Sh Averbukh, M Leibscher

Affiliations

  1. Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
  2. Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany.

PMID: 25591357 DOI: 10.1063/1.4905251

Abstract

We present full quantum mechanical scattering calculations using spinning molecules as target states for nuclear spin selective atom-diatom scattering of reactive D+H2 and F+H2 collisions. Molecules can be forced to rotate uni-directionally by chiral trains of short, non-resonant laser pulses, with different nuclear spin isomers rotating in opposite directions. The calculations we present are based on rotational wavepackets that can be created in this manner. As our simulations show, target molecules with opposite sense of rotation are predominantly scattered in opposite directions, opening routes for spatially and quantum state selective scattering of close chemical species. Moreover, two-dimensional state resolved differential cross sections reveal detailed information about the scattering mechanisms, which can be explained to a large degree by a classical vector model for scattering with spinning molecules.

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