Ultracold three-body collisions of H with alkali atoms
Yujun Wang,
J. J. Hua,
J. P. D'Incao,
B. D. Esry
( Department of Physics, Kansas State University)
We have calculated the ultracold three-body collision rates
involving some commonly used alkali atoms. In particular, we have
calculated the collision rates for spin-polarized H+H+Cs, H+H+Rb,
H+H+K, H+H+Na, and H+H+Li by solving the Schrodinger equation in the
adiabatic hyperspherical representation. We used realistic two-body
potentials to build the three-body interactions. The calculations
cover energies up to roughly 1~$\mu$K and include all three-body
processes possible for these systems: three-body recombination,
collision induced dissociation, and elastic atom-molecule
collisions.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.
Submitted to DAMOP, May 2006 in Knoxville, TN.
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