Laboratory conditions in the coherent control of reactive scattering

Abstract

The essential requirements for preparing a bimolecular collisional superposition state in the laboratory, allowing for control over reactive scattering, are described. Specific applications to isotopic variants of H+H₂ scattering are used to demonstrate the range of control for superposition states built from degenerate diatomic states.

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