scholarly journals Quantum theory of hydrogen recombination

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 945-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Greben ◽  
A. W. Thomas ◽  
A. J. Berlinsky

A fully quantum mechanical treatment is presented of the three-body recombination process H + H + 4He → H2 + 4He for T = 1 K where measurements have recently been performed. The calculation employs accurate interatomic potentials and thermal averaging. An impulse approximation is used to obtain the most important contributions to the rate constant. Off-shell effects are found to be important and are included in the final results which are in reasonable agreement with experiment. We find that the rate of formation of ortho-H2 is substantially larger than that of para-H2. The magnetic field dependence of the recombination rate is also discussed.

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 347-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
MURAT ÖZER

We attempt to treat the very early Universe according to quantum mechanics. Identifying the scale factor of the Universe with the width of the wave packet associated with it, we show that there cannot be an initial singularity and that the Universe expands. Invoking the correspondence principle, we obtain the scale factor of the Universe and demonstrate that the causality problem of the standard model is solved.


1987 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 651-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Fujii ◽  
K-I. Sato ◽  
N. Toyota ◽  
A. P. Kobushkin

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Secker ◽  
J.-L. Li ◽  
P. M. A. Mestrom ◽  
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Young ◽  
Tristan Johnston-Wood ◽  
Volker L. Deringer ◽  
Fernanda Duarte

Predictive molecular simulations require fast, accurate and reactive interatomic potentials. Machine learning offers a promising approach to construct such potentials by fitting energies and forces to high-level quantum-mechanical data, but...


2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (30) ◽  
pp. 1793-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. MODARRES

We investigate the possible angular momentum, l, dependence of the ground state energy of normal liquid 3 He . The method of lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) which includes the three-body cluster energy and normalization constraint (LOCVE) is used with angular momentum dependent two-body correlation functions. A functional minimization is performed with respect to each l-channel correlation function. It is shown that this dependence increases the binding energy of liquid 3 He by 8% with respect to calculations without angular momentum dependent correlation functions. The l=0 state has completely different behavior with respect to other l-channels. It is also found that the main contribution from potential energy comes from the l=1 state (p-waves) and the effect of l≥11 is less than about 0.1%. The effective interactions and two-body correlations in different channels are being discussed. Finally we conclude that this l-dependence can be verified experimentally by looking into the magnetization properties of liquid helium 3 and interatomic potentials.


1980 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Theodoor Thole ◽  
Petrus Theodorus Duijnen

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyang Zhou ◽  
Yizhi Qu ◽  
Junwen Gao ◽  
Yulong Ma ◽  
Yong Wu ◽  
...  

AbstractAn ion embedded in warm/hot dense plasmas will greatly alter its microscopic structure and dynamics, as well as the macroscopic radiation transport properties of the plasmas, due to complicated many-body interactions with surrounding particles. Accurate theoretically modeling of such kind of quantum many-body interactions is essential but very challenging. In this work, we propose an atomic-state-dependent screening model for treating the plasmas with a wide range of temperatures and densities, in which the contributions of three-body recombination processes are included. We show that the electron distributions around an ion are strongly correlated with the ionic state studied due to the contributions of three-body recombination processes. The feasibility and validation of the proposed model are demonstrated by reproducing the experimental result of the line-shift of hot-dense plasmas as well as the classical molecular dynamic simulations of moderately coupled ultra-cold neutral plasmas. Our work opens a promising way to treat the screening effect of hot and warm dense plasma, which is a bottleneck of those extensive studies in high-energy-density physics, such as atomic processes in plasma, plasma spectra and radiation transport properties, among others.


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