Physics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009njph...11e5040c&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 055040 (2009).
Physics
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Scientific paper
Two elementary models of molecular structure are used to investigate inelastic collisions in cold trapped dipolar gases. A two-state model of a polar molecule (such as one with a Λ-doublet) permits analytic description of the inelastic collision process at energies considerably higher than the gap energy, predicting rate constants and cross sections given by elementary formulae. Alternatively, a three-state model of a rotor molecule in an electric field is investigated, with resultant rate constants and cross sections scaling simply with molecular mass, rotational constant, dipole moment and polarizing field strength. Semiclassical inelastic collision cross sections and rate constants are demonstrated to depend strongly on the model used, especially as regards their dependence on the polarizing field. Inelastic cross sections among doublet dipoles decrease with increasing field strength, while they increase in proportion to the square of the field strength for collisions between rotor dipoles.
Cavagnero Michael
Newell Catherine
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