Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Universality and chaoticity in ultracold K+KRb chemical reactions

  • J. F. E. Croft,
  • C. Makrides,
  • M. Li,
  • A. Petrov,
  • B. K. Kendrick,
  • N. Balakrishnan,
  • S. Kotochigova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15897
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Studying chemical reactions near zero temperature in detail is challenging both in theory and practice. Here the authors report an explicit quantum mechanical study of the benchmark ultracold reaction between a K atom and a KRb molecule, important for future controlled chemistry experiments.