Low Energy Interactions between Ions and Ultracold Alkali Atoms
A special issue of Atoms (ISSN 2218-2004).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 14209
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser spectroscopy; collision studies; laser-excited atomic and molecular beams; nonlinear dynamics; chaos
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of low-energy ion-neutral collisions is fundamental to understanding the behavior, control, and applications of cold, atomic, molecular, and ionic gaseous systems. At long range, universal charge-induced polarization effects dominate the ion-neutral elastic, inelastic, reactive, and charge-transfer cross sections. Neutral alkali targets are of particular importance due to their ubiquitous use in cold atomic molecular and optical experiments, as well as their uniquely large polarizability. As their collision energy is lowered, ion-alkali reaction cross sections approach millions of atomic units, many orders of magnitude larger than typical neutral-atom van der Waals cross sections at the same energy scale. However, cold ion-alkali reactions had remained relatively unexplored until the early 2000s, at which time advances in laboratory and computational techniques such as cold hybrid ion-neutral traps and many-body excited-state quantum chemistry modeling were developed. Since then, the cold ion-neutral collision regime has rapidly blossomed. Researchers continue to explore and demonstrate quantum-limited control over a wide variety of ion-neutral partners, investigating ion-neutral sympathetic heating and cooling, formation and cooling of cold molecular ions, probing of quantum gases, and quantum chemistry, simulations, and computations. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent experimental and theoretical work in the field of low-energy ion-neutral studies, review progress, and discuss the outlook for future developments. Authors are invited to submit original research papers for the Special Issue as well as short, tutorial reviews emphasizing new developments not included in previous reviews.
Prof. Winthrop W. Smith
Prof. Douglas S. Goodman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cold ion-neutral collisions
- ion-neutral collision dynamics
- hybrid ion-neutral traps
- charge transfer collisions
- quantum simulations and computing
- ion impurities in ultracold quantum gases
- sympathetic cooling of ions
- molecular association
- quantum chemistry
- Langevin orbiting collisions
- long-range polarization interactions
- ion-Rydberg atom interactions
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