Rotational quenching of monofluorides in a cryogenic helium bath

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13046v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:57:07 GMT
• Title: Rotational quenching of monofluorides in a cryogenic helium bath
• Authors: Mateo Londoño, Jesús Péres-Ríos,
• Abstract summary: This work presents a global study on the interactions, collision dynamics, and transport properties of monofluoride molecules (X-F)<n>The resulting thermalization and rotational quenching rates are analyzed in light of the Born Distorted Wave Approximation (BDWA)
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• Abstract: Buffer gas cooling, one of the most relevant direct cooling techniques for cooling molecules, relies on dissipating the energy of the molecule via collisions with a buffer gas. The cooling efficiency hinges on the molecule-atom scattering properties, concretely, on the transport properties. This work presents a global study on the interactions, collision dynamics, and transport properties of monofluoride molecules (X-F), being X a metal, in the presence of a cold He buffer gas. The interactions are calculated using ab initio quantum chemistry methods, and the dynamics is treated fully quantal, assuming the monofluoride molecule is a rigid rotor. The resulting thermalization and rotational quenching rates are analyzed in light of the Born Distorted Wave Approximation (BDWA), yielding an explanation based on the elemental physical properties of the molecule under consideration. Therefore, the analysis of our results reveals the physics behind the rotational quenching of molecules in the presence of a cold buffer gas.

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