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Published on: January 9, 2014
Bose-enhanced chemistry: amplification of selectivity in the dissociation of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
1ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
We study the photodissociation chemistry of a quantum degenerate gas of bosonic triatomic ABC molecules, assuming two open rearrangement channels ( AB+C or A+BC). The equations of motion are equivalent to those of a parametric multimode laser, resulting in an exponential buildup of macroscopic mode populations. By exponentially amplifying a small differential in the single-particle rate coefficients, Bose stimulation leads to a nearly complete selectivity of the collective N-body process, indicating a novel type of ultraselective quantum degenerate chemistry.
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