Ultracold molecules under control!

G Quemener, PS Julienne - Chemical Reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the physics and chemistry associated with the interactions,
collisions, and reactions of ultracold molecules, that is, molecules having translational …

Molecular excitation in the interstellar medium: Recent advances in collisional, radiative, and chemical processes

E Roueff, F Lique - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Our main knowledge about astrophysical environments relies on radiative spectra.
Absorption studies require background sources that are located hapharzadly in …

Perspective: Ultracold molecules and the dawn of cold controlled chemistry

N Balakrishnan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Ultracold molecules offer unprecedented opportunities for the controlled interrogation of
molecular events, including chemical reactivity in the ultimate quantum regime. The …

Direct detection of nuclear scattering of sub-Gev dark matter using molecular excitations

R Essig, J Pérez-Ríos, H Ramani, O Slone - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
We propose a novel direct detection concept to search for dark matter with 100 keV to 100
MeV masses. Such dark matter can scatter off molecules in a gas and transfer an O (1) …

Full-Dimensional Potential Energy Surface for Ro-vibrationally Inelastic Scattering between H2 Molecules

J Zuo, JFE Croft, Q Yao, N Balakrishnan… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report a new full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for the inelastic scattering
between ro-vibrationally excited H2 molecules. The new PES is based on 39,462 multi …

Recent advances in quantum theory on ro-vibrationally inelastic scattering

D Yang, H Guo, D Xie - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular collisions are of fundamental importance in understanding intermolecular
interaction and dynamics. Its importance is accentuated in cold and ultra-cold collisions …

Unraveling the Stereodynamics of Cold Controlled Collisions

JFE Croft, N Balakrishnan, M Huang, H Guo - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Measuring inelastic rates with partial-wave resolution requires temperatures close to a
Kelvin or below, even for the lightest molecule. In a recent experiment, Perreault, Mukherjee …

New Full-Dimensional Reactive Potential Energy Surface for the H4 System

Y Liu, PG Jambrina, JFE Croft… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
As the most abundant molecule in the universe, collisions involving H2 have important
implications in astrochemistry. Collisions between hydrogen molecules also represent a …

Quantum dynamics of CO–H2 in full dimensionality

B Yang, P Zhang, X Wang, PC Stancil… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Accurate rate coefficients for molecular vibrational transitions due to collisions with H2,
critical for interpreting infrared astronomical observations, are lacking for most molecules …

Cold Collisions of Ro-Vibrationally Excited D2 Molecules

JFE Croft, PG Jambrina, FJ Aoiz, H Guo… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The H2+ H2 system has long been considered a benchmark system for ro-vibrational energy
transfer in bimolecular collisions. However, most studies thus far have focused on collisions …