Ultracold Chemistry and its Reaction Kinetics

We study the reaction kinetics of chemical processes occurring in the ultracold regime and systematically investigate their dynamics. Quantum entanglement is found to play a key role in driving an ultracold reaction towards a dynamical equilibrium. In case of multiple concurrent reactions Hamiltonian chaos dominates the phase space dynamics in the mean field approximation.

Florian Richter, Daniel Becker, Cédric Bény, Torben A. Schulze, Silke Ospelkaus, Tobias J. Osborne · 2014