Cold three-body collisions of H with alkali atoms

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Abstract

We have studied three-body collisions involving some commonly used alkali atoms. In particular, for spin-polarized H+H+Li, H+H+Na, H+H+K, H+H+Rb, and H+H+Cs systems, we have calculated the three-body recombination rates, elastic atom-diatom cross sections, and three-body bound state energies. We solved the three-body Schr{\"o}dinger equation in the hyperspherical adiabatic representation using realistic two-body potentials to build the three-body interactions. The calculations cover energies up to 0.5 Kelvin and partial wave contributions up to $J$=$5$.

Authors

  • Yujun Wang

    Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Department of Physics, Kansas State Uiversity, J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University

  • J.J. Hua

    Department of Physics, Kansas State University

  • Jose P. D'Incao

    JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • B.D. Esry

    Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Department of Physics, Kansas State Uiversity, J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Kansas State University, J.R.Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University