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The molecular anion C2− has been of interest in the past few years as a candidate for laser cooling due to its electronic structure and favorable branching ratios to the ground electronic and vibrational states. Molecular hydrogen has been used by the Wester group at Innsbruck as a buffer gas to cool the molecule’s internal rovibrational motion. In the present work we generate a five-dimensional (5D) interaction potential for the system by considering the H2 as a rigid rotor and the C2− as a rotating-vibrating diatomic molecule. We then calculate the cross sections and rate coefficients for rovibrational inelastic collisions of C2− with both para- and ortho-H2 on this 5D ab initio potential energy surface using quantum scattering theory for the dynamics. The rates for vibrational quenching are obtained over a range of temperatures that covers the single point measured by the experiments. A comparison is also made with earlier results which had used a simpler 3D interaction potential. Para-H2 is found to be more efficient than ortho-H2 (with or without also undergoing rotational excitation) in cooling C2−. The rate coefficients for cooling the anions have been computed by appropriately weighting the ortho- and para-H2 and compared with the available experimental result at 20 K. The computed results are nearly two orders of magnitude larger than the single experimental point. When the vibrational deexcitation rate coefficients are employed without any concurrent rotational excitations in the final C2− anions (a situation considered to be nonphysical under the present experimental setup), the properly averaged results are found to get smaller and to become very close to the existing experimental measurements. The robustness of the present results is tested and confirmed. The implications of these results for laser cooling of C2− are analyzed and discussed.
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
nr 111,
ISSN: 2469-9926 - Język:
- angielski
- Rok wydania:
- 2025
- Opis bibliograficzny:
- Giri K., Mant B. P., Gianturco F. A., Wester R., Franz J., Biswas R., Lourderaj U., Sathyamurthy N.: Rovibrational quenching calculations of C2− in collision with H2// PHYSICAL REVIEW A -Vol. 111,iss. 3 (2025), s.032817-
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- Cyfrowy identyfikator dokumentu elektronicznego (otwiera się w nowej karcie) 10.1103/physreva.111.032817
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- Wroclawskie Centrum Sieciowo-Superkomputerowe, Politechnika Wroclawska (WCSS) through Grant No. KDM- 408
- Weryfikacja:
- Politechnika Gdańska
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