Exploring and controlling inelastic and reactive collisions on the quantum level is a main goal of the developing field of ultracold chemistry. For this, the preparation of precisely defined initial ...

As in all collisions, momentum is conserved in this example. But calculations comparing kinetic energy before and after the collision show kinetic energy is not conserved. This is an inelastic ...

The probability of slow inelastic collisions between two atomic systems is investigated theoretically using the perturbed stationary state method (p.s.s. method) in which the kinetic energy of the ...