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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 137, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4752740
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [11-03-00081, 10-03-00195]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N204 248440]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1152474]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1152474] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The coefficients at the lowest-order electrostatic, induction, and dispersion terms of the anisotropic long-range potential between the two KRb((1)Sigma(+)) molecules are evaluated through the static and dynamic molecular properties using the ab initio coupled cluster techniques. Adiabatic channel potentials for the ground-state molecules are obtained and used for the numerical quantum capture probability calculations in the spirit of the statistical adiabatic channel models. Capture rate coefficients for indistinguishable (polarized) and distinguishable (unpolarized) molecules at temperatures below 10 mu K agree well with those computed with the simple isotropic dispersion R-6 potential, but underestimate the measured ones [Ospelkaus et al., Science 327, 853 (2010)] up to a factor of 3. Preliminary assessment of the effects of higher-order long-range terms, retardation of dispersion forces, and magnetic dipole-dipole interaction does not offer any clear perspectives for drastic improvement of the capture approximation for the reactions studied. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4752740]
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