Quantum simulation of a triatomic chemical reaction with ultracold atoms on a waveguide

Abstract

We study the scaling and coordinate transformation to physically simulate quantum three-body collinear chemical reactions of the type A+BC $\to$ AB+C by the motion of single ultracold atoms or a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate on an $L$-shaped waveguide. As an example we show that the parameters to model the reaction F+HH $\to$ H+HF with lithium are at reach with current technology. This mapping provides also an inverse scattering tool to find an unknown potential, and a way to transfer the knowledge on molecular reaction dynamics to design beam splitters for cold atoms with control of the channel outcome and vibrational excitation.

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• Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
• Experimental demonstration of painting arbitrary and dynamic potentials for Bose-Einstein condensates
• Polynomial-time quantum algorithm for the simulation of chemical dynamics
• A quasi-monomode guided atom-laser from an all-optical Bose-Einstein condensate
• A slow gravity compensated Atom Laser
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