Chaotic trajectories provide a sensitive means of detecting minute perturbations. Classical trajectories for quasi-bound states of ethane, alone and in an encounter with an argon atom, have been compared. They diverge when the argon atom approaches to within 35 Å of the ethane molecule and energy and angular momentum are exchanged.
A new phenomenon of angular momentum spikes is also reported.
D. Shen and H. O. Pritchard, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 1992, 88, 2985 DOI: 10.1039/FT9928802985
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