Ultracold Chemistry and its Reaction Kinetics
arXiv:1405.6811 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/055005
Abstract
We study the reaction kinetics of chemical processes occurring in the ultracold regime and systematically investigate their dynamics. Quantum entanglement is found to play a key role in driving an ultracold reaction towards a dynamical equilibrium. In case of multiple concurrent reactions Hamiltonian chaos dominates the phase space dynamics in the mean field approximation.
15 pages, 5 figures
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