Quantum-mechanical calculation of three-dimensional atom-diatom collisions in the presence of intense laser radiation
Abstract
A formalism is presented for describing the collision of fluorine with the hydrogen molecule in the presence of intense radiation. For a laser frequency on the order of the spin-orbit splitting of fluorine, the interaction of the molecular system with the radiation occurs at relatively long range where, for this system, the electric dipole is vanishingly small. Hence the interaction occurs due to the magnetic dipole coupling. Even so, at low collision energies a substantial enhancement of the quenching cross section is found for a radiation intensity of 1011 W/cm2.
- Publication:
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Journal of Chemical Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.438497
- Bibcode:
- 1979JChPh..71.1543D
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Collisions;
- Chemical Lasers;
- Hf Lasers;
- Laser Pumping;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Radiation Chemistry;
- Angular Momentum;
- Eigenvalues;
- Fluorine;
- Hydrogen Atoms;
- Molecular Collisions;
- Quenching (Atomic Physics);
- Three Dimensional Motion;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics;
- 34.50.Hc