Physical Review A

Three-body recombination of cold helium atoms

Hiroya Suno, Brett D. Esry, Chris H. Greene, James P. Burke

Published Apr 8, 2002• 136 citations

Abstract

We have developed a method for calculating the rates for three-body recombination of cold atoms. This method allows us to treat not only zero total angular momentum, $J=0,$ states but also $J>0$ states, so that recombinations at nonzero collision energies can be considered. Our method is applied to ground-state helium atoms ${}^{4}\mathrm{He},$ using a realistic interaction potential. In addition, we obtain the rates for collision induced dissociation.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.65.042725

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Three-body recombination of cold helium atoms

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Published Apr 8, 2002• 136 citations

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Abstract

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We have developed a method for calculating the rates for three-body recombination of cold atoms. This method allows us to treat not only zero total angular momentum,

J=0,

states but also

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X=^{7}\text{L}\text{i}

^{23}\text{N}\text{a}

^{39}\text{K}

^{85}\text{R}\text{b}

, and

^{133}\text{C}\text{s}

, are calculated at nonzero collision energies by including not only zero total angular momentum,

J=0

, states but also

J>0

states. The three-body recombination rates show a relatively weak dependence on the alkali-metal species, differing from each other only by about one order of magnitude, except for the

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system.

R

-matrix propagation method, in order to calculate the product-state-selective total and partial recombination rates in the

^{4}\mathrm{He}+^{4}\mathrm{He} +

Ag system. Recombination at collision energies less than 10 mK is found to take place dominantly to the product molecule

^{4}\mathrm{He}\mathrm{Ag}

in its least bound state, while the three atoms recombine mainly to the

^{4}\mathrm{He}_{2}

molecule in its ground state at higher collision energies.

We have studied hydrogen-hydrogen-alkali three-body systems in the adiabatic hyperspherical representation. For the spin-stretched case, there exists a single

X

H molecular state when

X

is one of the bosonic alkali atoms:

^{7}\mathrm{Li}

^{23}\mathrm{Na}

^{39}\mathrm{K}

^{87}\mathrm{Rb}

, or

^{133}\mathrm{Cs}

. As a result, the only recombination process is the one that leads to formation of

X

H molecules, $\text{H}+\text{H}+X\ensuremath{\rightarrow}X\text{H}+\text{H}$, and such molecules will be stable against vibrational relaxation. We have calculated the collision rates for recombination and collision-induced dissociation as well as the elastic cross sections for

\text{H}+X\text{H}

collisions up to a temperature of 0.5 K, including the partial wave contributions from ${J}^{\ensuremath{\Pi}}={0}^{+}$ to ${5}^{\ensuremath{-}}$. We have also found that there is just one three-body bound state for such systems for ${J}^{\ensuremath{\Pi}}={0}^{+}$ and no bound states for higher angular momenta.