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Collisional cooling of internal rotation inMgH+ions trapped with He atoms: Quantum modeling meets experiments in Coulomb crystals
Autor(es)
Materia
Potential energy
MgH+(1) ion
He(1S) atom
Electronic interaction
Molecular
Quantum dynamics
Kinetics
Thermal temperatures
Ions
Clasificación UNESCO
2210 Química Física
2210.31 Termoquímica
Fecha de publicación
2018
Editor
Physical Review A
Citación
González-Sánchez, L., Wester, R., & Gianturco, F. A. (2018). Collisional cooling of internal rotation in MgH+ ions trapped with He atoms Quantum modeling meets experiments in Coulomb crystals. Physical Review A, 98(5). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053423
Resumen
[EN]Using the ab initio computed potential energy surface for the electronic interaction of the MgH+(1) ion with the He(1S) atom, we calculate the relevant state-changing rotationally inelastic collision cross sections from a quantum treatment of the multichannel scattering problem. We focus on the quantum dynamics at the translationally low energies for the present partners discussed in earlier, cold ion trap experiments (see below), which we wish to model in detail. The corresponding state-changing rates computed between the lower rotational states of the molecular ion are employed to describe the time-evolution kinetics followed by recent experiments on Coulomb-crystallized MgH+(1), where the ions are rotationally cooled by micromotion tuning
after being uploaded into the trap of He as a buffer gas. The present computational modeling of the final ion rotational temperatures in the experiments turns out to agree very well with the observations and points at a fast equilibration between rotational and thermal temperatures of the ions.
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2469-9926
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053423
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