Resonance reactions and enhancement of weak interactions in collisions of cold molecules

Details Resonance reactions and enhancement of weak interactions in collisions of cold molecules Resonance reactions and enhancement of weak interactions in collisions of cold molecules

2006-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603639v2

Phys. Rev. A 74 (2006) 025601

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

5 pages. Included discussion of expected size of effects

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.025601

With the creation of ultracold atoms and molecules, a new type of chemistry - "resonance" chemistry - emerges: chemical reactions can occur when the energy of colliding atoms and molecules matches a bound state of the combined molecule (Feshbach resonance). This chemistry is rather similar to reactions that take place in nuclei at low energies. In this paper we suggest some problems for future experimental and theoretical work related to the resonance chemistry of ultracold molecules. Molecular Bose-Einstein condensates are particularly interesting because in this system collisions and chemical reactions are extremely sensitive to weak fields; also, a preferred reaction channel may be enhanced due to a finite number of final states. The sensitivity to weak fields arises due to the high density of narrow compound resonances and the macroscopic number of molecules with kinetic energy E=0 (in the ground state of a mean-field potential). The high sensitivity to the magnetic field may be used to measure the distribution of energy intervals, widths, and magnetic moments of compound resonances and study the onset of quantum chaos. A difference in the production rate of right-handed and left-handed chiral molecules may be produced by external electric and magnetic fields and the finite width of the resonance. The same effect may be produced by the parity-violating energy difference in chiral molecules.

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