Cold Chemistry: Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero: Volume 11 (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Series)

Product description Review Select Guide Rating From the Inside Flap Recent years have seen tremendous progress in research on cold and controlled molecular collisions, both in theory and in experiment. The advent of techniques to prepare cold and ultracold molecules and ions, to store them in optical lattices or in charged quasicristalline structures, and to use them in crossed or merged beam experiments have opened many new possibilities to study the most fundamental aspects of molecular interactions. At the same time, theoretical work has made progress in tackling these problems and accurately describing quantum effects in complex systems, and in proposing viable options to control chemical reactions at ultralow energies.Through tutorials on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of research in cold and ultracold molecular collisions, this book provides advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers with the foundations needed to understand this exciting field. From the Back Cover Recent years have seen tremendous progress in research on cold and controlled molecular collisions, both in theory and in experiment. The advent of techniques to prepare cold and ultracold molecules and ions, to store them in optical lattices or in charged quasicristalline structures, and to use them in crossed or merged beam experiments have opened many new possibilities to study the most fundamental aspects of molecular interactions. At the same time, theoretical work has made progress in tackling these problems and accurately describing quantum effects in complex systems, and in proposing viable options to control chemical reactions at ultralow energies.Through tutorials on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of research in cold and ultracold molecular collisions, this book provides advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers with the foundations needed to understand this exciting field. About the Author Olivier Dulieu is Research Director at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, France. His research interests include the theory of structure and dynamics of cold and ultracold neutral and ionic molecules, quantum chemistry, molecular spectroscopy and field-assisted dynamics.Andreas Osterwalder is a Senior Scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, where he leads a team working on developing a merged beam technique to study neutral chemical reactions below 1K. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Cold ChemistryMolecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute ZeroBy Olivier Dulieu, Andreas OsterwalderThe Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright © 2018 The Royal Society of ChemistryAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-78262-597-1ContentsChapter 1 Low-temperature Chemistry in Uniform Supersonic Flows M. Fournier, S. D. Le Picard and I. R. Sims, 1, Chapter 2 Cold Molecular Collisions: Quantum Scattering Calculations and Their Relevance in Astrophysical Applications Jacek Klos and Francois Lique, 46, Chapter 3 Low-energy Scattering in Crossed Molecular Beams C. Naulin and A. Bergeat, 92, Chapter 4 Long-range Interactions Between Ultracold Atoms and Molecules Maxence Lepers and Olivier Dulieu, 150, Chapter 5 Interactions of Atoms and Molecules in Cold Chemistry Michal Hapka and Piotr S. Zuchowski, 203, Chapter 6 Effects of External Magnetic Fields on Cold Molecular Collisions Timur V. Tscherbul, 276, Chapter 7 Role of Resonances at Ultracold Temperatures Robin Côté, 313, Chapter 8 Experiments with Large Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets Rico Mayro P. Tanyag, Curtis F. Jones, Charles Bernando, Sean M. O. O'Connell, Deepak Verma andAndrey F. Vilesov, 389, Chapter 9 Molecular Impurities Interacting with a Many-particle Environment: From Ultracold Gases to Helium Nanodroplets Mikhail Lemeshko and Richard Schmidt, 444, Chapter 10 Cold Ion Chemistry Dongdong Zhang and Stefan Willitsch, 496, Chapter 11 Controlling a Quantum Gas of Polar Molecules in an Optical Lattice Jacob P. Covey, Steven A. Moses, Jun Ye and Deborah S. Jin, 537, Chapter 12 Ultracold Collisions of Molecules Goulven Quéméner, 579, Chapter 13 Coherent Control of Cold Collisions Christiane P. Koch, 633, Subject Index, 663, CHAPTER 1Low-temperature Chemistry in Uniform Supersonic FlowsM. FOURNIER, S. D. LE PICARD AND I. R. SIMS1.1 IntroductionEnormous progress has been achieved over the past several decades in the determination of gas-phase rate constants for elementary reactions, especially at high temperatures relevant to combustion (T>ca. 500 K). At sub-ambient temperatures progress has been slower, despite strong interest in reaction kinetics data from the atmospheric and astrochemical communities, as well as for fundamental tests of rate constant theory. This is due in no small measure to the considerable experimental difficulties associated with low-temperature kinetics measurements, but perhaps also to the commonly-held belief that the temperature-dependent rate constants k(T) of chem