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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3789–3792 (1998)

Coherent Control of Reactive Scattering

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Alexander Abrashkevich, Moshe Shapiro*, and Paul Brumer
Chemical Physics Theory Group, University of Toronto, and Photonics Research Ontario, Toronto, Canada M5S 3H6

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Received 11 December 1997; published in the issue dated 26 October 1998

Coherent control of bimolecular reactions is demonstrated for 3D atom-diatom reactive scattering. In particular, a superposition of initial degenerate (vjk) diatomic states is used to control reactive integral and differential cross sections in D+H2(vjk)→H+HD, where v and j are the vibrational and rotational quantum numbers of a diatom and k is the projection quantum number of the diatom angular momentum onto the initial relative translational velocity vector. Control over the ratio of reactive to nonreactive scattering is extensive.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3789
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3789
PACS:
82.40.Dm, 34.50.Lf, 34.50.Rk

*Permanent address: Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.

See Also

Erratum: Alexander Abrashkevich, Moshe Shapiro, and Paul Brumer, Erratum: Coherent Control of Reactive Scattering [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3789 (1998)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3002 (1999).