Quantum scattering calculations on chemical reactions

SC Althorpe, DC Clary - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review discusses recent quantum scattering calculations on bimolecular
chemical reactions in the gas phase. This theory provides detailed and accurate predictions …

Ultracold molecules and ultracold chemistry

MT Bell, T P. Softley - Molecular Physics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The recent development of a range of new methods for producing samples of gas-phase
molecules that are translationally cold (K) or ultracold (mK) is driving efforts to study reactive …

An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant

QM Zhang, H Li, M Poh, F Xia, ZY Cheng, H Xu… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Electroactive polymers (EAPs) can behave as actuators, changing their shape in response
to electrical stimulation. EAPs that are controlled by external electric fields—referred to here …

Observation of magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold 23Na40K + 40K collisions

H Yang, DC Zhang, L Liu, YX Liu, J Nan, B Zhao… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Resonances in ultracold collisions involving heavy molecules are difficult to simulate
theoretically and have proven challenging to detect. Here we report the observation of …

Explaining the abundance of ants in lowland tropical rainforest canopies

DW Davidson, SC Cook, RR Snelling, TH Chua - Science, 2003 - science.org
The extraordinary abundance of ants in tropical rainforest canopies has led to speculation
that numerous arboreal ant taxa feed principally as “herbivores” of plant and insect …

Field-linked resonances of polar molecules

XY Chen, A Schindewolf, S Eppelt, R Bause, M Duda… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Scattering resonances are an essential tool for controlling the interactions of ultracold atoms
and molecules. However, conventional Feshbach scattering resonances, which have been …

Recent advances in quantum dynamics of bimolecular reactions

DH Zhang, H Guo - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we survey the latest advances in theoretical understanding of bimolecular
reaction dynamics in the past decade. The remarkable recent progress in this field has been …

Observation of Feshbach Resonances in the F + H2 → HF + H Reaction

M Qiu, Z Ren, L Che, D Dai, SA Harich, X Wang… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Reaction resonances, or transiently stabilized transition-state structures, have proven highly
challenging to capture experimentally. Here, we used the highly sensitive H atom Rydberg …

Quantum interference in H + HD → H2 + D between direct abstraction and roaming insertion pathways

Y Xie, H Zhao, Y Wang, Y Huang, T Wang, X Xu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Understanding quantum interferences is essential to the study of chemical reaction
dynamics. Here, we provide an interesting case of quantum interference between two …

Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity

JJ Gilijamse, S Hoekstra, SYT van de Meerakker… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Molecular scattering behavior has generally proven difficult to study at low collision
energies. We formed a molecular beam of OH radicals with a narrow velocity distribution …